Word: lose
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...taken, risks that would lead, if not to peace, then very possibly to war. If Sadat did not succeed, he would lose all credibility within the Arab world. He would be left with one option, and the Israelis knew that the Egyptian President was fully prepared for that bloody alternative. Said Henry Kissinger this week: "It will take a monumental mess-up to derail Sadat's initiative. But if it fails, there will...
...really sweating," says the father, sensing the kill. Lizie scowls. "How do you know it's a he?" But now the sweating is over,and the checkmated computer weeps a bright red tear: "I lose." "Right, it's a he," says Lizie...
...shut us down three times last summer. One had a gun. No way I'm going to argue with that kind of thing, but it's dead wrong. The company treats us well, and we shouldn't be penalized when some other company has trouble. We lose good money on somebody else's say-so." A younger miner puts it more bluntly: "If the company gave us protection against wildcat strikes, I'd be willing to cross the picket line. There wouldn't be all this wildcat crap if John L. Lewis [the thunderous...
...killed a baby and stabbed a pregnant woman in the stomach. Under influence of the drug, a man in San Jose, Calif., tore out both his eyes with his bare hands. In the Chicago area, more than a dozen cases of drownings have been attributed to PCP use: victims lose a sense of direction and space and cannot fight their way out of the water...
...then came the grudge match against Brown. A word or two about Brown is in order here. Last year the Crimson track team trudged down to Providence on he last day of the fall term, with its ranks therefore depleted, only to lose a thriller to the Bruins in the last event, the two-mile relay...