Word: lose
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...need not pay much of anything at all. Skillfully as they had defended their positions in the first weeks of the conference, Herter and his colleagues had now seriously to consider whether anything short of a Western walkout at Geneva could convince Moscow that it had anything to lose by playing it tough...
...Much? When the votes were counted in Sicily, the Christian Democrats learned the hard way the truth of the saying: "Never threaten a Sicilian; he has nothing to lose." Despite their efforts to sell themselves as the sole alternative to Red ruin, the Christian Democrats wound up with only 34 of the 90 seats in the regional assembly-three fewer than they had before, and not enough to rule. The Communists (21) gained a seat; so did the Red-lining Nenni Socialists (11). But the biggest gains were made by Milazzo, who captured a pivotal nine seats...
...busts the door down and-blackout. Several scenes later, Susan announces bitterly that she is pregnant. As the four-column ads explain it: "She hated the child whose life stirred within her because it was part of him whom she loathed and despised." She prays that she will lose it, and one night in a storm she stumbles out into the barnyard and has a miscarriage in the mud. Husband Boyd, generously letting bygones be bygones picks her up in his brawny arms and staggers six miles cross-country to the doctor. Then he turns around and staggers back...
Lisa is only 33, and can presumably go on being sultry, cute and stylish for decades to come. But if she should ever lose her nightclub following, her energetic, silver-haired mother may point to new possibilities; at 66, Mrs. Kirk is a successful model impersonating happy, middle-aged matrons of the Serutan...
...good is a raise? Everything goes up, and Uncle Sam takes 25% anyway. The important thing is to keep prices down." Added another workman: "If we get a raise, the merchants and the landlords raise prices to the equivalent of what we're getting. If we strike, we lose what we make in the raise anyway, so we lose twice...