"Britain's literature, poetry, art and music abounds in secret gardens, wonderlands, paradises lost, postponed or regained," he writes, before announcing some of them: Avalon, Xanadu, Arden, Narnia, Elidor, Utopia.
Excluding his five stints on the disabled list and the time lost to postponed games in 2001 after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, this is the second-longest gap between appearances in Rivera's 15 seasons as a reliever, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.
Monday's Salisbury meeting was rendered unraceable by a similar quantity of rain but Stickels said Ascot was certainly raceable and, on the basis of the current forecast, he did not feel there was a real possibility of Champions Day being lost or postponed.
"Some of it is lost, most is postponed," Karen M. Hoguet, Macy's chief financial officer, said of demand.
And to the extent that people who haven't flown in the last five days will fly in the future, the revenue from their trips hasn't been lost, but rather postponed.
The Pirates postponed losing their 82nd game and ensuring a record 17th consecutive losing season, which would surpass the 1933-48 PhilliesPhilliesllies.
A war-weary America clutches at this Syrian straw and defers to Russian mediation; a congressional vote on military action that President Obama seemed set to lose is indefinitely postponed; Obama uses an awkward prime-time address to say dictators "depend upon the world to look the other way" when they commit atrocities — and so he will, well, pursue a "diplomatic path" for now.
The drumbeat of doom over the airwaves and in print broke dates, postponed meetings, lost audiences.
Others have postponed replanting lost trees, which take five years to mature, until they know whether a cure will be found.
Adam Kirby has lost the ride on Postponed in Saturday's King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes and the horse will now be ridden by Andrea Atzeni.
Senator Packwood adjourns his committee just before the key votes he was bound to lose and postpones further voting indefinitely.
