Word: lose
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Several factors make such an interesting showdown unlikely. Not the least is the political power of Southern education lobbies, whose sponsors would lose their bread and butter. Also more and more citizens are seeing a greater danger in postponing education, much less setting it back to the Eighteenth Century, than in sending their children to school with negroes. Their position is shared by most moderates. It will attract some who are tempted to provoke the show-down, but fear it would result in decisive restriction rather than reaffirmation of the independent spheres of life...
...have a boy, and he can meet girl, lose girl, and get girl...
...year and who sports one of the longest kicks seen in a long time, is a fixture at left fullback, while Captain Terry O'Malley will start on the right. But both of these men have had leg troubles in the past and, as Munro puts it, "if we lose either of these men, we're in trouble...
...that recognition of Red China is neither cowardly, immoral, nor an approval of Mao's regime, but rather an advantage in dealing directly with a force the U.S. wishes to curtail in power and size. At this point we can salvage little, but our present policy can very well lose us everything--including our allies and a precarious peace...
...week, then quietly announced his intention to return to Harvard. Before the end of his junior year, he had taken a leave of absence to attend the stricken Aga Khan III, then assumed the throne when his grandfather died in July 1957. Now, said he, "I decided I should lose no opportunity to equip myself for the future...