Word: lostness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three school superintendents in two years, turned over 9% of its students to Houston to save money. Last summer the board cut the proposed school tax from $1.58 per $100 property assessment to $1.35. Result: the town's twelve schools (9,000 students) temporarily lost accreditation: after their paychecks stopped last month. Aldine's teachers quit their jobs and the schools shut down entirely...
...keep the railroad track from sinking into the muskeg, Spock would wipe the sweat from his mustache, wolf a huge supper, and unroll his blackboard. His afterhours task: teaching basic English to 40 sunburned Galician laborers. "I didn't get very far," recalls Dr. Spock, who has since lost the mustache, become a pediatrician and won wide fame as an expert on the horticulture of babies. "They thought I was a spy for the Canadian Pacific...
...movie industry. In ailing postwar Italy, cinema was briefly practiced as a kind of social medicine. But the would-be healers prescribed such a bitter pill-neorealism -that the public refused to swallow it; most of the famed Italian films of the late '40s won rave reviews but lost money. In this picture, made in 1956, the ablest of the neorealists-Director Vittorio De Sica and Scriptwriter Cesare Zavattini, who together produced Shoeshine and The Bicycle Thief-sweeten their pill to the public taste. Yet under the sugar-coating of a story of young love, there is still strong...
Throughout the game Harvard's Langy Kavaliku and Charlie Rowe, exceptionally fast wings, were unable to get the ball on many three quarter movements, and the attack thus lost much of its power. One of the times Rowe did have the ball, he raced 30 yards around the Nomad secondary, only to be tackled at the goal line. Many of the 400 spectators--and the Crimson team--thought Rowe had scored, but the ball was brought out for a scrum...
...faced another top group of runners in the two-mile. He led the pack for most of the first mile and one-half, but in the seventh lap Bob Kunkle of Navy, John Morrison of Yale, and Bob Lowe of Brown all passed the Crimson ace. With hope seemingly lost, Benjamin somehow found strength for a rally and won going away in 9:12.6. Some unofficial timers figured out Btnjamin's time for the last 440--an unbelievable...