Word: lostness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...threat of summer heat already lies heavy over Cairo and the rest of Gamal Abdel Nasser's Egypt. The city police have changed their blue flannel uniforms to summer whites. Jacaranda trees are blooming richly purple in suburban Heliopolis, remnants of the district's lost elegance. While the triple peaks of the pyramids of Giza shimmer on the horizon, stately feluccas sail down the Nile as silently as they have done for centuries. Overhead, hawks wheel lazily in gyres. The pace of the people in their flowing gallabia robes, never very fast, has grown a step or two slower...
...only three weeks away from a day that they would prefer to forget, June 5, the second anniversary of their crushing defeat by the Israelis in the Six-Day War. The war left Cairo shorn of part of its realm, ruling over a defeated people and a divided land. Lost in the war, the Sinai desert and Gaza remain in the hands of the conquering Israelis, who are solidly entrenched on the east bank of the Suez Canal...
...freshman lacrosse team won its eighth game of the season yesterday by tripping UMass 9-6 at the Business School field. The Yardlings have only lost to Andover and Brown...
...Crimson and Big Green teams have both lost 15 individual matches this season, but the Harvard golfers have an edge in wins, recording 69 compared to Dartmouth...
Junior Larry Terrell lost badly at number four, 6-2, 6-2, and Levin was forced into three sets before he defeated Jeff Dyer at number one, but Harvard swept through the remainder of the singles matches with incredible ease...