Word: losee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...acre, English-owned plantation in Mississippi, drew $1,167,502.35 in Government price-support loans on its 1957 cotton crop, $20,761.20 in soil-bank subsidy (now partly abandoned) for not planting riceland. Example: Westlake Farms, Inc., of Stratford, Calif., did a heads-we-win-tails-you-lose business with taxpayer money: $854,450.67 from Commodity Credit Corp. for the cotton it raised, $125,942.50 from the soil bank for the cotton it did not raise. Because of a small 1957 crop and rising prices, some big operators redeemed their loans, but the soil-bank money was all gravy...
...haughtily): "I never in my life thought I lose a man if I give him love and affection. American law is against a woman. If I go in a room and see a very attractive man, I don't think about him as a man, but as a business partner. My class woman has no chance for love. She thinks, dammit, the man's marrying me for my money. It's only poor people who are really happy...
...Chicago Symphony's first overseas tour in its 68-year history. The only trouble with it, argued 7O-year-old Conductor Reiner, was that it would leave the orchestra "miserably worn out" for its regular Chicago season. The explanation did not satisfy the musicians, each of whom will lose, beyond a fine junket, an average $2,000 in extra salary. "It's easy for him to talk," said one orchestra member. "He makes $70,000 a year...
...There are crises when people lose their skeletons and dwindle to a mess of unresolved aims, regrets, opportunities." And it is in such crises that the aimless look hungrily around in search of men who dazzle, hypnotize, even defraud them by sheer audacity. That is the text of British Novelist Peter Vansittart's latest novel (his first to be published in the U.S. was The Game and The Ground-TIME, May 6, 1957). Orders of Chivalry is witty, satirical, and one of the toughest, most trenchant novels to come out of Britain in recent years. Author Vansittart (38-year...
...string section has become more solid, and the intonation continues to improve. The main faults are an over-weighty bass, and a tendency to lose intensity on the sustained notes. A less pronounced and biting attack on each note would have supplied a smoother legato, particularly in the opening Purcell Overture, which was otherwise very satisfactory in tone...