Word: lostness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years after that, the generals, the bankers and Liberals gave Ecuador "chocolate prosperity," based on rich cacao plantations. Paris became the mecca of the planters, while back home the nation and the people lost ground, literally, to grabby neighbors: 26,000 sq. mi. to Brazil in 1904; 62,000 sq. mi. to Colombia in 1916; 79,000 sq. mi. to Peru in 1942, at gunpoint. By 1949, the nation had tried 15 constitutions, 44 presidents, only 10 of whom lasted out full terms...
Ironically, Researcher Rhoads made medical history as the passive object of research. Victim in 1936 of a fulminating streptococcal infection, he became one of the first Americans saved by the first modern wonder drug, sulfanilamide. He lost only one finger instead of his life...
...husky Third Baseman Ed Mathews is still hitting home runs (33), lean Rightfielder Hank Aaron is still leading the league with his bat (.367), and on the pitching staff 38-year-old Lefty Warren Spahn (15-11) and 32-year-old Righty Lew Burdette (16-12) have lost none of their guile...
Many stocks, including some electronics, regained much of the lost ground before week's end. Wall Street took the break in stride, cautious but unfrightened. With prospects ahead of an economic spurt once the steel strike ends, most Wall Streeters expect the averages to break through the 700 mark before year...
Texas, piled up a modest fortune-and lost all but $29.30 in the 1929 market crash. (He and his wife spent what was left on a night...