Word: lostness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lost cause, however. Hubbard claims she wants to write music that "is felt but not heard." She tries to buck the trend in modern jazz and revive the purely romantic side of jazz. In her music, Hubbard states, she is "not trying to be any structured thing. In all of us we have the dreamer...
Amen-ide-ra and his woman Jora led four thousand desert tribesman in a successful revolt against a decadent, evil regime of Sheik lords. These two were essentially vagabonds of unusual wisdom. Their reign marked a golden era lost to historians. Eventually, Amen-ide-ra yielded to the call of the sands and, taking his sword and horse, rode into the sunrise. Jora and Amen saluted each other as one vagabond to another. Jora stayed to rule...
Richards said "there is no greater joy in the world than beating K-House in something," adding that if Winthrop lost the Straus, he'd "be assassinated by four former athletic secretaries...
...Quincy lost the tackle football championship 13-7 to a surprising South House team in the final minute of the playoffs. Lisa Hirschorn, SoHo athletic secretary, attributed South House's fourth-place position to top draft picks in the housing lottery and "a total change in attitude" within the House. Intramural Sports Standings House Points Sport Champion Kirkland 472 Tackle Football South Winthrop 416 Quincy 332 Touch Football Winthrop South 293 Eliot 288 Co-ed Mather 284 Touch Football Kirkland Lowell 270 North 130 Women's Soccer Eliot/Winthrop Leverett 116 Currier 102 Field Hockey North Dudley 82 Dunster 52 Cross...
Such tales have not been limited to small firms. Chemical Bank, which lost $6 million in post-Volckerism bond dealing, abruptly fired its trading manager. A billion-dollar sure thing- the issuing of IBM bonds last month- turned into a pumpkin for such blue-ribbon investment bankers as Salomon Bros., which had underwritten the deal. Because of difficulties selling the IBM securities, Salomon and other traders had to swallow losses of $10 million. For the once staid bond market, it has been a fitting 50th anniversary of the Great Crash...