Word: lostness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gainesville children's class on death would have learned a lot more had they visited one of our Wisconsin families. After they lost their young child, they made the casket, performed the service, and with friends buried their child on his grandparents' farm...
...motion supported by the combined opposition of Pierre Elliott Trudeau's Liberals (114 seats) and the New Democratic Party of Ed Broadbent (27 seats). When the shouting from the triumphant opposition benches had subsided, Clark rose from the government bench to make the despondent announcement. "The government has lost a vote on a matter which we have no alternative but to regard as a question of confidence," he said. "I want to advise the House that I will be seeing his excellency, the Governor General, tomorrow morning...
With the 3% white minority stripped of its former privileges, the real contest is expected to take place among the blacks. Bishop Muzorewa, once the most popular of the black leaders, has lost much of his credibility through his failure to improve the economy and end the war. He has enraged many fellow blacks by his dependence on Ian Smith's white followers and his open dealings with South Africa...
When David Smith was killed in a car accident near Bennington, Vt., in 1965, America lost the best sculptor it had ever produced. In a quarter-century of work, Smith had taken the constructivist tradition of sculpture-images built up from rigid planes-from where Pablo Picasso and Julio Gonzalez had left it in the '30s, and given it an extraordinary richness and amplitude. Indeed, his work in three dimensions was so magisterial that it blotted out the rest of his output. For Smith was not only a sculptor, but a draftsman, and his drawings, thousands in number, were...
...paper favors abortion on demand, gun control and SALT II. It strongly supports Governor Ray, a moderate Republican, and pushed hard last year for the re-election of Senator Dick Clark, a liberal Democrat. The day after Clark was defeated, the Register published an editorial entitled "The Best Man Lost." Says Publisher David Kruidenier, grandson of Gardner Cowles Sr.: "I now regret it. We sounded like poor losers and were second-guessing the people...