Word: lostness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pretty young team", Williams said. "We lost a lot of seniors last year and the players have had to pick up the game rather quickly...
...psychological buffeting Californians will endure will follow a characteristic pattern. Initial shock and fears will give way to a burst of elation. But that will quickly fade as the extent of the devastation sinks in. While few residents must confront the death of a loved one, many have lost their homes, which hold immense emotional as well as financial value. The destruction of family photographs can be tantamount to obliterating one's personal history...
...fast as she earned them, and her last years were marked by humiliations: mortgage foreclosure on the rambling country home she built for the Tribe, increasingly inept and desperate "farewell" performances to pay overdue bills. But when the end came, Paris remembered what it, and the world, had lost. In 1940-42 Baker had been a spy of sorts for De Gaulle's Free French, and later in the war, she made endless appearances as a troop entertainer. At the historic Madeleine church, her flag-bedecked coffin was carried past an honor guard, as would have befitted an army veteran...
...before those who were closest to it. Just 21 minutes before the start of the World Series' third game, the TV pictures from San Francisco's Candlestick Park started to jiggle. ABC sportscaster Al Michaels shouted, "We're having an earth . . .!" Then the screens went black as power was lost. Soon the network switched to a rerun of a sitcom...
...spectators fell silent. After it finally stopped, the relieved and unhurt crowd broke into a cheer. "That's San Francisco," said an admirer of the city. "They cheer an earthquake." A fan scribbled an impromptu sign: THAT WAS NOTHING. WAIT TILL THE GIANTS BAT! After the public address system lost power, police in squad cars used bullhorns to tell the fans that there would be no game and that they should move slowly toward exits. As they left and looked north, they could see a plume of black smoke rising into an otherwise clear...