Word: lostness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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City Councillor James A. Sheets won the Quincy mayor's post while the mayor of Newburyport lost to his predecessor and Salem's top executive was ousted. Mayors in Lawrence, Holyoke, Fitchburg, Fall River and Gloucester held onto their posts...
...Democrat, Ben Zwirn, ran on an anti-incinerator slate and overwhelmingly won the "incinerator district." But he failed to direct any efforts anywhere else in the town. He lost miserably. As usual...
...things that got me hooked into this is that I was a legislator for many years and amassed a large number of services for helping people at many levels," he says. "And I have seen in effect that legislation go down the drain because people lost faith in the government of Massachusetts so that they are not willing to fund those services...
...called Echoes of War, which was shown on the Public Broadcasting System last week, radar was hailed as the military's unsung hero of World War II. As physicist I.I. Rabi once recalled, "Maybe we could have won it without the atomic bomb . . . but without radar we could have lost...
...wolves in the big park were exterminated by Government hunters by the late 1920s. That was a time when animals were thought to be good (elk and bison, for instance) or bad. Wolves had been pursued in the West as if they were not merely bad, but evil. Cattlemen lost entire herds to harsh winters, then spent enormous, irrationally large sums of money taking vengeance on wolves. Barry Lopez, in his haunting book Of Wolves and Men, tells of wolves drenched with gasoline and set afire, wolves pulled apart by horses. You can't dismember an April blizzard...