Word: lostness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although the Crimson lost in foil by the close score of 4 to 5, the Tigers walked away with the sabre and epee contests by scores...
Penn regained a 48-47 lead at the quarter mark on Bob Mlkvy's set shot, but lost it immediately when Bowditch hit for one of his usually accurate one-handers. The varsity never lost the lead thereafter, consistently dominating play from this point...
...Since most of her songs are in French, Piaf prefaces them with a dry, straightforward English precis ("She meets her lover; he goes away; she weeps"). But the translation is seldom necessary. Her hands and face and powerful voice are obviously telling of a woman scorned, a lover lost, an affair broken...
Want, Want, Want. All his life Henderson has tilted at destiny and lost. His father was disappointed in him; his wife tricked him into marrying her; his children do not understand him. His idealistic urge to be a physician was stillborn. A hulking six-footer weighing 230 Ibs., Henderson is a kind of Herculean wreck with a bad leg from a World War II wound, a deaf ear, a bridgeful of false teeth and a nose bulbous from overdrinking. All he has is $3,000,000 and a demonic inner voice that says "I want, I want, I want...
...similar spirit, the second of these books recalls the familiar theory that the American automobile has become less a means of transportation than a status symbol impossible to define, and lately, impossible to de-fin. Using this as a wheelbase. Author Douglass Wallop (The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant) has produced a pleasant little fiction involving gadgeted and gusseted cars that are driven by a privileged group of dogs. The dogs themselves, of course, are at the mercy of the whims of the designers, i.e., the breeders. Author Wallop's protagonist is Hobbs, an English bulldog...