Word: lose
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gaulle was racing against the clock, hustling to reshape French political and economic life before the expiration of the special powers he has exercised since last June. Keenly aware that he will lose the right to legislate by simple decree once he is formally inducted as President this week (see below), De Gaulle spent the last days of his premiership grinding out laws so distasteful to France's vested interests that no government of the Fourth Republic had ever dared to adopt them...
...rest of my life having something like this on my conscience. I would be betraying my entire profession if I revealed my source." Why did not the CBS spokesman come forward now and give her the right to reveal his name? Said she: "The guy could lose his job." There was some comfort for her in the approving messages and gifts from well-wishers all over the U.S., including TV Comic Jackie Gleason's chocolate cake with a steel file jutting candlelike from the frosting...
...what is bound to be one of the most urbanely amusing novels of 1959. The Roots of Heaven was a poetic last stand in the name of freedom. Lady L. is for freedom, too-freedom from people who are so grimly determined to make men free that they lose sight of humanity and become petty tyrants themselves...
...opens, but she is still so beautiful and witty that England's beknighted poet laureate, Sir Percy Rodiner, trots beside her, constantly begging her to marry him. Like everyone else, Sir Percy thinks she is a noblewoman of French birth, but on this day (what can a lady lose at 80?) she puts matters straight...
...Bruins Lose...