Word: lostness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...timetable, but the toughest part was yet to come. At the Clapier pass itself, the path is in some places less than 6 ft. wide, bounded by rising cliffs on one side, sheer 1,000-ft. drops on the other. In the first four days of the trek, Jumbo lost 300 lbs., but cheerfully contrived to put away her daily food ration of 150 lbs. of hay, 50 lbs. of apples, 40 lbs. of bread, 20 lbs. of carrots and half a pound of vitamin B. Hannibal's elephants never had it so good...
...Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger for having made the Loyalist situation appear brighter than it was. Recalled he, in his 1946 book, The Education of a Correspondent: "Even then, heartsick and discouraged as I was, something sang inside of me. I, like the Spaniards, had fought my war and lost, but I couldn't be persuaded that I had set too bad an example...
...Robert Black of White Motor Co. said: "We began preparing for this strike six or seven months ago. We've got a 60-to 90-day steel stock. But you never know-one missing item can stop your production. For want of a nail, a battle can be lost...
Some companies have even descended to wiretapping. After a major company lost an $80 million contract because it was underbid by only $200,000, it ran a phone check, found that its lines were bugged throughout the country. It took the winning bidder to court, wrested the contract away from him. Where wiretapping is illegal, confided one company agent, "there are other ways of getting information. The waiter serving lunch in the man's suite, the telegrams the bell captain might see, the maid who cleans the room, the switchboard operator. These people are paid to keep their eyes...
...than the author of those words, Norman Kenneth Winston, 59, an impish-faced, meticulously dressed man who ranks among the world's biggest builders (more than 20,000 houses and apartments worth $300 million), runs so many construction and real estate companies (more than 100) that he has lost count, manages a huge personal fortune ($40 million)-and still finds time to hustle continuously from continent to continent as envoy extraordinaire of U.S. capitalism. This week Norman Winston hopped off to Moscow to help open the first American National Exhibition in the Soviet Union as a special adviser...