Word: lose
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stairways made of wood are going to burn up very fast, and if there were a fire in one of the dorms with an outside fire escape, you'd lose more people by falling through the fire escapes than you would from the fire," Kate M. Elliot '81, a resident of Greenough said yesterday...
...about five minutes then someone started screaming. Others picked up the scream and soon we were all yellling and cursing at Colgate and at ourselves for letting down. We jumped up and down and slapped the walls and each other and made up our minds to refuse to lose. Well, we lost that game but we did not lose gently. And we did not make excuses for it and we were not satisfied...
...There doesn't seem to be a game plan or a theme. Foreign policy lacks coordination. Domestic policy has yet to have a pattern. His proposals are rhetoric, not specifics." House Republican Leader John Rhodes complained that "somehow this Administration has, in a very short time, appeared to lose its moral nerve." Senate G.O.P. Leader Howard Baker was preparing what he called his "now-and-then speech-how it was then, when he came into office...
...from across the border hit the Israeli towns of Safad and Qiryat Shemona-scene of a notorious fedayeen raid in 1974, in which 18 Israelis and three Palestinians died, and 15 people were wounded. If Washington cannot persuade the Israelis to back off, however, the U.S. is bound to lose a bit of credibility among the Arabs. Explained an American diplomat involved in the situation: "If we can't get them out of there, the Arabs are bound to think, 'Well, Washington's got no clout with this government. If the Americans...
...recent health education law requires that, starting next fall, America's 119 medical schools must accept as third-year transfer students some 1,500 Americans who have been studying medicine overseas. If the U.S. medical schools do not comply, they stand to lose federal aid amounting to $1,400 a student a year. The Association of American Medical Colleges (A.A.M.C.) unanimously condemned the law when it was passed last year as an unwarranted intrusion into the admissions process. Now 18 of the more famous and affluent schools-including Yale, Harvard, Cornell and Stanford-have formally notified the Department...