Word: lostness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shop advocate, Barry Goldwater, because of his seniority on the Labor Committee, will be the G.O.P.'s ranking Senate spokesman. Moderate Republicans fear that their program will get an automatic setback under Goldwater's wing; most recollect powerfully his fondness for the right-to-work laws that lost in five out of six states last fall and carried many a Republican down with them.† If Goldwater, who won easily in Arizona, right-to-work and all, takes an uncompromising stand during the labor bill debates, liberal Republicans may desert him not so much to affect Senate voting...
...Joint. In 1942 Marthe died, and Bonnard, a frail, spectacled old man of 74, was quite lost without her. He was staggered when a letter arrived from the public registrar notifying him that, since Marthe had died intestate, their joint property would be sequestered until the question of heirs was settled. The "joint" property consisted of stacks of his unsold paintings and portfolios of drawings...
Ironically, Nyasaland, poorest of the federation's three territories, has the most to gain from the union. It has the smallest (8,000) white minority, all but lost among 2,700,000 blacks. Last July the demagogic Dr. Hastings Banda returned from self-imposed, 40-year exile to cry "To hell with federation" and proclaim himself "extremist of the extremists." Before his oratory, moderate African leaders fell back...
Contact With Pioneer Lost...
...powerful government radio telescope lost contact with the 13-pound cone at 10:24 a.m. EST. The General Electric Co. tracking station at Schenectady, N.Y., reported flickering signals until shortly after...