Word: lose
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...feels that last season's tailspin, including an eight-game losing streak ending the season, was also a learning experience. "The bad part is a lot of people expected to lose. For me, it was a good experience in a way.... Soccer had always meant a lot to me, I had always been on a winning team.... I realized then that soccer was not the only thing...
...mandatory retirement law is passed without a provision exempting tenured faculty, universities would lose their capacities to renew their faculties with younger academics bringing new perspectives and study concerns to their fields...
Then those two losses. Ya know, it's almost like he planned them. I mean you gotta figure that Harvard was gonna lose at least once the first month--they always do and so why not do it when the damn game doesn't count for nuthin', not even for beans...
...artificial lens implant. The special spectacles restore vision to normal levels but, in the process, magnify images by 30% and leave the patient with limited peripheral vision. Contact lenses produce less distortion and permit peripheral vision but can be irritating to the eyes, difficult to insert and easy to lose-especially for elderly or arthritic cataract patients who are practically sightless without their lenses...
...nothing the Yankees did could ever be construed as competitive. Playing as if they wanted to lose so that they could return and win it all in the Big Apple, the Yankees appeared stiff and unenthusiastic. Not even Catfish Hunter played well. Surprised, aren...