Word: losee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Members of the City Council were advised yesterday by the Redevelopment Authority that Cambridge stands to lose $4,980,000 in Federal aid for the project unless workable plans are submitted by Oct. 4. But the Federal government has also cut off planning funds until the belt route is settled...
...statehood (even if Congress were to agree to it) because it would undercut his successful Operation Bootstrap industrialization plan, which uses tax exemption to lure new industry. Under statehood, industry and individuals would have to pay U.S. income tax. Muñoz further fears that his Hispanic island would lose its cultural identity and its Spanish language-"would become only a whiff of vermouth in the martini instead of the olive." Statehood's proponents argue that it would give Puerto Rico six or seven Congressmen and two Senators, a voice in making federal laws and decisions that govern...
...second baseman and sparkplug Red Schoendienst, recovering from tuberculosis, will be out of play all season, and the Braves looked unimpressive as they dropped 15 of their first 21 spring training exhibitions. Pittsburgh's second-place Pirates gave up power that they could ill afford to lose when they traded Slugger Frank Thomas to the Cincinnati Reds. In the winter trading, the Giants picked up two established starting pitchers: Jack Sanford, 29, who won 19 games for Philadelphia two years ago, and aging (33) Sam ("Toothpick") Jones, a hard-throwing curve-bailer who led the league last year...
Nash attributed the loss of prospective science concentrators to "a perfectly pedestrian explanation." Freshmen lose interest in science when they discover that college courses are primarily concerned with "the gory details of quantitative calculations," he explained...
...World Series, Bob Friend, the ace of the Pittsburgh pitching staff, stated flatly that his team could have beaten the Yankees. He will get his chance this October when the Pirates will face New York (and lose in six games...