Word: lostness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...couldn't wait; I rushed out. Reaching home, I unstrapped the contraption that serves as a substitute for my left leg since I had an argument with a germ several years ago and lost, and there in the bottom of the socket, wedged tight, was the wallet...
...Shaw's own sexual history was an odd one. He lost his chaste treasure on his 29th birthday, to the importunities of a widow lady named Jenny Patterson, who won by her persistence an immortality in such parentheses as this. After this momentous event Shaw slept around casually and childlessly for several years, until in his middle forties he married a "green-eyed Irish millionairess" after she had nursed him through a serious illness. After the wedding, in accordance with certain prejudices of his wife's, he gave up sex forever, and the two of them dwelt together, chaste...
Storm & Thunder. But if much of the Indian press seemed prepared to write off Tibet as a lost cause, India still had a voice and a conscience. Speaking in Delhi, strong-minded Jayaprakash Narayan, 56 (TIME, July 6). who was long considered Nehru's heir, ripped away the pretense that the Dalai Lama is in India for any reason except "to fight for his country and his people. Any patriot in his position would have done the same thing. Will you please imagine what would have happened if Nehru at the age of 25 had found himself...
...Kerekes (pronounced Care-a-kesh), 66, professor of European history, whose 32 hugely popular years in Washington have been a mere second act to an already crowded career in the maelstrom of World War I Europe. Budapest-born, Kerekes was a Hungarian cavalryman on the Russian front (he later lost an arm), became tutor to the Habsburg family in 1917 and claims he is the only living person who knows the ''true story" of the tragedy at Mayerling. Emigrating to the U.S., he tried orange growing in Florida, wound up in 1927 as assistant professor in Georgetown...
...hope for the U.S. steel industry in holding its own against foreign competition is the dramatic change that has taken place in the industry since World War II. Steelmen have spent $12 billion for new plant and equipment, poured millions into research. Once a prince-and-pauper industry that lost money at a downturn in the economy, the steel industry has become so efficient that it was able to report healthy profits during the recession (1958: $877 million), while operating at only 60.6% of capacity. So much has the industry changed its complexion that steel stocks, once considered a risky...