Word: losely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...evidently don't know me. It begins to look like I've lost my fortune that I've striven for for 35 years. My office is threatened, it looks as if they are threatening my liberty, but I'm not going to lose my self respect...
...Faculty," she said, "are the limit!" Certain modern methods in the Office she was pleased to call "the deficiency system." To her mind efficiency was the prerogative of individuals: any encroachment of the mechanical on the personal she balked at. "I was born saucy"; and, again, "I may lose my temper; but I never lose my head...
When questioned about the Walker Cup matches with England this summer he seemed quite optimistic. "I don't want to appear too enthusiastic, but under the present existing conditions it is difficult to see how we can lose...
...extraordinary past whose echoes were still in the country around him. He picked up an Indian battle axe one day and, like many another U. S. urchin, stared with a long wonder at this emblem of forgotten hatred and forgotten fear. After he became a parson, he could not lose his intense feeling for the past; when he told his Sunday school about Joshua, he could hear trumpets sounding and the roar of falling walls. His parish was in Norristown, Pa.; on winter nights he could imagine that the cold wind crying at his window was still blowing snowdrifts over...
...despair of the French. It may even have prevented an Allied victory in the early years of the War. But Sir Douglas Haig was inflexible in believing that Britain's "new army" should not join the professional army of France in a desperate thrust "to win or lose it all." Of his attitude famed Winston Churchill, now Chancellor of the Exchequer, has written: "On questions which, in his view, involved the safety of the British armies under his command, Sir Douglas Haig-right or wrong-was, whenever necessary, ready to resign." Not until all armies neared the brink...