Word: lost
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Given Americans a reason to apologize to Michael Dukakis b. Had a difficult first trimester c. Watched, but not participated in, a D-day parachute exhibition d. Somehow lost the rest of his unit 4. This chimp is excited because...
...years, the cartoonist brought very good grief to Peanuts fans as Snoopy and Co. made light of melancholy themes such as loneliness and insecurity. In a parable on blind faith, Schulz's Charlie Brown always had the football yanked away from him, but never lost his kick...
...those days before the SAT, many colleges designed their entrance exams, down to which passages from Homer students ought to be able to translate, and high schools tailored their lessons accordingly. But as the nation's public schools swelled and colleges started recruiting applicants from farther afield, universities lost touch with their neighborhood schools. Over time, the relations became icier, with schoolteachers carping that all they got from colleges were airy theories of school reform, spun from on high...
...losing states - although no state actually lost population, for the first census ever - are mostly blue. New York and Pennsylvania will lose two seats each, and Connecticut, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin each lose one, along with Bush winners Indiana, Mississippi, Ohio, and Oklahoma...
...singled out in the second grade as the outstanding boy student and did well enough in the third and fifth grades to be twice skipped ahead by half-grades. By the time he reached junior high school, he was the youngest, smallest boy in the class. He felt lost, unsure of himself. With no one to turn to, he made loneliness, insecurity and a stoic acceptance of life's defeats his earliest personal themes. At the same time, he possessed a strong independent streak and grew increasingly stubborn and competitive as life and its injustices, real and imagined, piled...