Word: lose
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...united Europe cannot live without the help and strength of Germany," he said. The French and others had suggested that the Assembly defer action on Germany until next year. But, growled Churchill, "that year is too precious to lose. If lost, it might be lost forever. It might not be a year-but the year...
...Braves have been dragging along ten or more games behind the pace-setting St. Louis Cardinals and Brooklyn Dodgers, and like all good managers, Southworth hates to lose. A high-strung man who gave up drinking 14 years ago when he realized that alcohol had him down, he has been afflicted this summer with headaches and insomnia. "I never used to know what other fellows meant when they talked about headaches," said Billy...
...interviewer before leaving for Paris to attend a conference on U.N. research laboratories. "It must be free and not warped to fit an irrelevant plan...To the extent that they are prostituting their, sciences in this direction, the Russians will be the losers." But, he added wistfully, "we shall lose some also, because they are excellent scientists, and they with us could help so much in the great scientific attacks on the ignorance, diseases, and the poverty...
...Bangaway and his rubber-tired sulky had been put in the 18th post position for the first heat-which meant outside in the second tier of starters. There is a sharp turn on the triangular track soon after the start, and it seemed possible that Bangaway might lose ground there or get in a tangle. Nevertheless, the mutuel patrons sent him off an 8-to-5 favorite last week in the Hambletonian Stakes (for three-year-old trotters), richest and most glory-laden of U.S. harness races, sometimes called the Hayseed Derby or the Corn-Tassel Derby because...
Though many airports are still clamoring for his service, Jimmy Dobbs has bigger & better plans-to supply meals to railroads, which usually lose money on dining cars. He is closing a deal with one road to supply its meals much as he does the airlines' and he is dickering with several others. Dobbs figures that he will be able to serve better food than railroad passengers now get, and at the same time cut diner losses at least in half...