Word: lostness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Prince had lost weight from the rigors of running, had been outrun in the stretch of The Preakness three weeks earlier, and had no pedigree to do a distance...
...among young people, a new landlessness, an acute sense of dispossession. Wyatt wears a leather jacket with an American flag stitched on the back; Billy calls him Captain America. The land of the free is not only locked in convulsion now that the rent's come roun'--it's lost. In the classic Western, the main character searches for a long-gone past; in Easy Rider America searches for itself, also long-gone. (Hanson: "This is used to be a hell of good country.") 'And he couldn't find it anywhere...
...unnecessary finesse accounts annually for thousands of set contracts, hundreds of lost rubbers and tens of lost tournaments. Today's contract, for example, was reached through an aggressive yet logical sequence of bidding. There are two lines of play from which this hand could be approached. If you are a beginner, you could politely smile at your partner as he laid down his hand and you realize that you have a fifty-fifty chance of making the contract, depending on where the king of clubs lay. Naturally you take the first trick with the ace, play out two rounds...
Soundings have already begun to find out whether they will give the current plans a better reception than those of 1955 got. Lost week, several University officials, including Goyette and Edward S. Gruson, assistant to the President for Community Relations, met with residents of the neighborhood...
Growing Worry. Anxieties are growing among investors who are old enough to remember the 1929 crash and the Depression. A 49-year-old Akron trucking executive has lost only $1,000 on a $20,000 investment in four blue chips-U.S. Steel, Ohio Edison, Goodyear and Standard Oil (Ohio). "But I had a fear of the market from the start," he says. "So do most people who saw their families struggle through the Depression. Now I feel like digging a hole in the backyard and burying the dough...