Word: lose
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Stressing inner stability even in the face of failure, he said, "If you become tense, you lose peace, you lose sleep, you could not eat, with that strong emotional feeling...At the same time, your family, even your own dogs and cats will suffer and lose peace...
...this commitment has placed great political tensions on her. "When I'm asked a question, I'm afraid to answer honestly, in case it might not be good for me at home. We've talked about this"--glancing quickly at her son Hugo, a senior at Columbia--"one might lose a passport. You're playing it by ear all the time with shivers up the spine," she says calmly...
...believe in what they are doing and possess enough independence to reject or exploit bureaucratic maneuvering that surrounds them. As Bova portrays it, the path into space--whether it be military, industrial or political--will be strewn with the carcasses of careers and programs that, regardless of merit, lose behind-the-scenes struggles of power and influence...
REGURGITATIVELY, Barth lifts his characters, these war correspondents of the literary battlefield, from each of his past books. The one new creation, Lady Amherst, is also the best. Her sequence of letters to the author describes the progress of her affair with Ambrose Mensch, a dilettante writer late of Lose in the Funhouse. Barth makes a feeble effort to set her up as an allegorical representation of "Belles Lettres," on which her--or Ambrose--hopes to father forth a new novel, but she balks, her past liaisons with famous men of letters notwithstanding...
Freshman Kalish, the GBC fifth singles champ who has yet to lose a match this fall, should continue her steady play. Roberts, is playing like the Martha of Old as her powerful game has been growing more accurate with each match...