Word: lostness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Trembling & Twitching." Thereupon the case turned into a pre-trial jury hearing to decide whether Podola had actually lost his memory and so was unfit to plead guilty or not guilty of murder. Detective Albert Chambers, 6 ft. and 230 lbs., testified that to arrest Podola, he "charged [the door] with all my strength," and crashed Podola to the floor, falling "full length on top of him." When Podola recovered consciousness, said Chambers, he had ''a peculiar trembling and shaking and twitching" in his whole body...
Robbins' young troupe (average age: 24) reached London midway in a four-month State Department-sponsored tour of Europe and Israel; so far, the troupe has attracted capacity crowds everywhere from Salzburg to Athens. Fortnight ago, performing without costumes or sets (lost in a plane crash), Robbins & Co. proved to be the hit of the Edinburgh Festival. Most of the program at both Edinburgh and London's Piccadilly Theatre was originally devised for last year's Spoleto Festival. Included last week were N.Y. Export, Op. Jazz, a deadpan exercise in which knees break, shoulders shrug...
...metals and machinery-the August annual rate of personal income was down $3 billion from the July annual rate and $4.5 billion below the June rate. Since the steel strike started last July 15, an estimated 500,000 steelworkers and 155,000 workers laid off in allied industries have lost something like $700 million in wages...
...nation's railroads, among the outside industries hardest hit by the strike, have lost 1,340,000 cars of freight since the strike began. Last week the Association of American Railroads estimated that the strike has cost the roads $320 million in revenues through Sept...
...Labor Department, bear the burden of chronic unemployment. In Detroit alone, automation, decentralization and lower production have brought the loss of 130,000 auto manufacturing jobs in the past nine years. This means, said the Labor Department, that since 1950 one out of every three auto workers has lost...