Word: lose
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best-two-out-of-three playoffs with the Braves this week, the Dodgers match their hard-pressed luck against a team that many baseball writers rated the world's best at season's start. Win or lose, the Dodgers were amazed to be there...
...thorough education and a consuming interest in theological problems are not sufficient to make an ideal clergyman either, Miller maintained. "To say the least, our situation is bewildering," for ministers must be neither scholars to such an extent that they lose contact with the present, nor agents of the present to such an extent that they forget the larger order of reality, he asserted...
...hell of a note to come back to school on. On top of picking classes, I have to lose my whole way of existence to the masses and their media. It has become painful to be seen in sneakers unless you are carrying a basketball. Keep your beard and some little Cliffie thinks it calls for a humorous comment...
...while staff members try to find a charitable organization interested in keeping it open. After that, the hospital is on its own. Its 162 fulltime staffers and its 520 part-time volunteer clinicians (most of whom have sizable city practices) must either move or commute to Palo Alto or lose their Stanford affiliation. The upshot: when classes open at the university next week, 75% of the hospital's clinical staff will be new, and some doctors feel that the talent available in the suburbs is no match for what Stanford has left behind in San Francisco...
...battles of Quebec (1759), where Britain gained an empire, and Lexington (1775), where it began to lose one, were two of the most important actions fought in North America. As carefully retold by Authors Christopher (King Mob) Hibbert and Arthur (The Charles) Tourtellot. Quebec and Lexington come to life again with the gunpowder scent of real history. As with so many battles, these were ineptly lost, haphazardly...