Word: lostness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvey Haddix, who pitched better far longer than any pitcher ever did-and lost. See SPORT...
Even before he graduated from Indiana University's law school, Halleck jumped into professional politics. In 1924 he ran for prosecuting attorney of Jasper and Newton counties, won-and has never since lost an election. He served four terms as prosecutor until, in one of the darkest of all Republican years, the chance came for advancement. In 1934, with the New Deal tide at its crest, the Congressman from Halleck's Second District died just nine days after the elections. Charlie Halleck went after the job, campaigned furiously, squeaked through by 5,000 votes...
...send to Washington as its first Senators two of the oldest political faces in the land of the luau. Indeed, last week Hawaiian Democrats pressured out of the June 27 Senate primary race the party's youngest, brightest star: Territorial Senator Daniel K. Inouye, 34, a lawyer who lost his right arm and won a D.S.C. as a second lieutenant platoon leader in World War II's famed "Go For Broke" Nisei 442nd Regimental Combat Team. Agreeing to try for Hawaii's lone House of Representatives seat instead, Inouye made no bones about the reason...
...undertake history's greatest amphibious invasion, the Allied powers had assembled 150,000 men, 1,500 tanks, 5,000 ships and 9,000 planes. The German enemy was reeling: his cities had been bombed, he had lost North Africa and been thrown back to the seven hills of Rome. Wounded he was-but still deadly dangerous, with 60 divisions, including his crack Panzers, to defend Western Europe. Adolf Hitler correctly divined Normandy as the probable Allied Schwerpunkt, concentrated his armored reserves behind seven infantry divisions in the target area and, closer to Germany, maintained strength...
...stocks, the judge held that a trustee for someone else's money need only "conduct himself faithfully and exercise the sound discretion" in investments that a prudent man would. This meant that Boston trustees could prudently buy into common stocks, fear no suits from clients even if they lost every penny...