Word: lostness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...voice and the affable manner of a small-town politician. He founded the league's progenitor, the Christian Conservative Churches of America, two decades ago, between a bout with lymph cancer (he won) and his 1960 campaign to be one of Illinois' U.S. Senators (he lost). Shortly after he built this ersatz Mount Vernon-as a tribute to his beloved George Washington and a home for his family of nine-federal agents battered down the gate with an armored personnel carrier, and arrested him for harboring an alleged Marine deserter...
...Right then I knew I was going to win," Murphy said. "I had lost to them before in close races. I knew that wasn't going to happen again, and so did they...
...some Washington lobbyists sharply disagree, saying that women's colleges--mostly small four-year institutions on the eastern seaboard--are getting trampled on. "The federal run of things is complicated enough so that specific interests are being lost," says Donna L. Shavlik, associate director of the Office of Women in Higher Education of the American Council on Education. Marcia K. Sharp '68, director of the Women's College Coalition, a Washington-based amalgam of 67 single-sex institutions, agrees with Shavlik's assessment. The coalition, says Sharp, needs "to spearhead a better understanding of what the positive elements" of women...
Although some staff members on both sides of Byerly Hall expressed fears that "particular kinds of expertise and values would be lost in a combined office," Fitzsimmons says as the staffs became more familiar with each other "the majority really looked forward to the combination with excitement over dealing with the other half of the population...
Horner says she would call a meeting if a dispute arose over a "major financial or legal matter." And both Presidents agree that, because of the close working relationships among the committee's members, there's no danger that important issues will be lost in the bureaucratic shuffle...