Word: lose
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...didn't know who he was, you'd take him for a typical '70s teenager, face obscured by a helmet of longish brown hair, heading to Central Park with his friends to throw a Frisbee or play with a pack of bandanna-wearing dogs. Sometimes he would lose his Secret Service detail, so he could head for the park and hang out freely with his friends; once after doing so, he was mugged. Eventually, his mother decided to send him to boarding school at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass...
...pizza without the tabs coming along. If he was less reckless than his cousins, it was not saying much; there were friends who turned down the invitation to take to the skies with him. Pilot Kyle Bailey watched the plane take off Friday night. "I didn't lose any sleep over it," he says. "I figured he must know what he was doing." But Bailey didn't like the weather. He decided to wait and fly in the morning...
...airport and climbed back to 2,600 feet, leveling off briefly before making a second turn to the right and starting a precipitous plunge that may have exceeded 5,000 feet per minute, 10 times the normal speed. "A pilot not rated to fly by instruments can very easily lose his orientation when the horizon disappears in the darkness and the haze," says TIME aviation correspondent Jerry Hannifin. "In that situation, the pilot has a responsibility to turn back." Alas, turning back was not John Kennedy...
MARYLAND declared students who plant bombs may lose their driver's license...
Experts today, as in the past, prescribe moderation. Noted. But you should consult Farouk's example in order to understand the weaknesses of moderation. When Farouk was dieting, trying to lose weight, he had 600 oysters a week flown in from Copenhagen. That was austerity--for him. Moderation tends to be subjective and loves to work on a sliding scale...