Word: lose
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doubt about it. No way. No way Norton can lose...
Number one singles player Sally Roberts made a belated comeback after dropping the first set 0-6, only to lose a tiebreaker and the match in her second...
According to coverpoint Laurie Benton, the laxwomen will fare well in Williamstown. "If we lose to anybody it's our own fault. We're great," she said...
...when the author lessens the depth of his stories, as he does in "The Instruction of a Mistress," and "The Hand of Emmagene," his tales lose much of their appeal. As cruel revelations of the obsessions with which Taylor's characters "feed" their minds, all these stories lack the moderating presence of an adolescent observer. The reader can't sympathize with the presumptuous homosexual poet who keeps his mind busy with the loveless education of mistresses. Then there is the niece who chops off her hand, because she can't transcend her low upbringing, the couple who finds its marriage...
...enrolled in a federal job-training program in Massachusetts, hoping to become an engineer. Discovered once again, he is now in jail on a charge of illegal entry. Will he try to come back to the U.S. still another time? "Why not?" he shrugs. "I've nothing to lose...