Word: lostness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most publicized new arrivals in Alaska are the "Fifty-Niners," an eager motorcade of 37 pioneers who left Detroit last March to make their homes in the new state. Beset by breakdowns and inept leadership ("Thirty minutes after we left Detroit we were lost," says a newsman who accompanied the expedition), the group has since had tough going. But vivid reporting of the Fifty-Niners' trials has deterred none of a second contingent from Michigan: some 550 men, women and children have registered at $25 a head, will set out in a 100-car train later this month...
...Gaulle on his way to power, one French Deputy pleaded: "Let us vote for him lest we lose the right to vote altogether." Last week, as the new Assembly of the Fifth Republic opened its first regular session, flabbergasted Deputies got a demonstration of just how much they had lost after...
Beating men is nothing new to 19-year-old Marilyn Voges. Since she made the varsity as a freshman last season, she has been in continuous competition with males, has lost only one singles match. And Chattanooga's team is undefeated...
Finally Braithwaite lost his temper, tongue-lashed his laggards. Beginning immediately, he told them, they were to act like ladies, gentlemen-and scholars. They sat amazed as he gave his startling ultimatum: girls were to be addressed as Miss, boys were to be referred to by their surnames. He himself, he announced, would answer only to Sir or Mr. Braithwaite. When one boy objected that he knew the girls too well for formality, Braithwaite scored a tactical victory. "Is there any young lady present whom you consider unworthy of your courtesies?" he asked. The girls glared at the rebel...
Tight Pants. But such is the faith of British rock 'n' rollers-to say nothing of British wives-that Terry seems to have lost the loyalty of neither. One night last week, with five MPs guarding the doors and bobbies examining all fans for concealed tomatoes and eggs, Terry Dene appeared before a packed movie house in Derby. Dressed in a long, pale jacket and skin-tight pants, he began his hip-flinging comeback with Just One More Chance. There were hoots from angry men ("Get back in the army"), but the whoops from the ecstatic girls drowned...