Word: lose
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...overwhelmingly, wanted him to back the university's position that some places can be set aside for less qualified, minority students. Opponents of quotas have also been vocal: businessmen, labor unions and universities, moderate and conservative whites, and some minorities, like Jews, who feel they can only lose in a quota system...
...social realities and society's perceptions. A male actor can fly a plane, fight a war, shoot a badman, pull off a sting, impersonate a big cheese in business or politics. Men are presumed to be interesting. A female can play a wife, play a whore, get pregnant, lose her baby, and, um, let's see ... Women are presumed to be dull...
...better way. His large-scale camera produces a huge negative, 102 centimeters by 203 centimeters (40 in. by 80 in.), from which an equally big print is made by the Polaroid process. Unlike other large prints that are blown up from a small negative in conventional fashion and lose sharpness in the process, the Polaroid pictures show no graininess. Also, because the image on the original negative is so huge to begin with, conventional enlargement of sections of the negative can produce microscope-like magnifications...
...eight on the 6th, Shinnecock's only waterhole, when he drove into the bushes and then stubbed two wedges. He was only one down after 15 but he airmailed his third shot to the par five 16th and had to settle for a half. He went on to lose the 169-yard 17th when he plunked his tee shot into the greenside bunker and failed to extricate himself...
...drop out on their own, for lack of desire. Three of the identified species--the Craftsman, who succeeds because of his skill in producing a fine product, the Jungle Fighter, whose specialty is high-stakes politicking and backstabbing, and the Company Man, who gets ahead because he'd rather lose his family than his job--are familiar types who have had their day but are being slowly phased out by a fourth wunderkind. It is the Gamesman, Maccoby maintains, who by his natural competitiveness and daring is best suiting to run the corporate monoliths in an increasingly faster-paced, constantly...