Word: losely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conceded, in view of the Cape Breton mining strike (TiME, Apr. 20, June 22), which was accompanied by violence and severe economic depression, that the Liberals would lose a few seats, that Labor would hold its own, that the Conservatives would make insignificant gains...
Under this last circumstance, Aunt Teresa cannot bear to lose Sylvia. She breaks the engagement. They acquiesce, Sylvia in self-sacrifice, Georges in indecision. Promptly Aunt Teresa marries off Sylvia to a Belgian officer with a bobbing Adam's apple and canary mustache. On Sylvia's wedding night she sends this docile husband home alone. Sylvia and Georges see what they are missing and sleep together...
...semi-finished steel, in fact, amount to less than a single day's output of U. S. steel mills. The facts therefore go to show that the invasion of our markets by foreign steel and iron producers is not as yet anything for Pittsburgh or Birmingham to lose sleep over...
Conducted by Fate, Kate's artist, Chris Fenno, no longer a boy, suddenly appeared as Anne's fiance and mother-panic had an unpleasant struggle with mother-revulsion. To tell the girl about a certain week in Normandy would have been to lose her. The family minister contributed some sound observations on "sterile pain" and panic, thus reinforced, carried the day. Not heroic, perhaps, but who shall say unnatural...
...lines of motors. Alarmed, she stood still. Her heels sank into the tar, were held fast. She gave a lurch. Her foot came from her slipper. She put her steaming foot back into her slipper, wrenched once more, and once more it slipped out, causing her to lose her balance, plunge her foot into the tar which gripped her stocking as she wrestled, dragged it half off. For a moment she balanced, storklike, on a single strut, then, with a yelp, fell face forward into the tar. A dozen men ran to her. With a jerky, united effort they dragged...