Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...criticism. From members of L.B.J.'s own party and foreign governments came mounting pressure for him to give in and take what Hanoi proffered, however unpalatable. Said New York's Senator Robert Kennedy while campaigning in Indiana for Johnson's job: "We need not worry about whether we will lose face by agreeing to a site we have not suggested. The important thing is to get the talks started. Each week of delay costs the lives of hundreds of men and further postpones our own hopes for domestic progress...
...marches. In both Indiana and Nebraska, his volunteer student armies have dwindled. McCarthy has sometimes appeared supercilious, as last week in Indiana, when he declared the Hoosier primary to be "critical" to the outcome of the Democratic race. Later, in an unwonted exercise of heads-I-win-tails-you-lose casuistry, he explained testily that he meant it would be crucial only if he won against Kennedy and Hoosier Favorite Son Roger Branigin. Otherwise, he averred, Indiana would not matter much...
...fourth of the overtime affairs, Joe Tibbetts took a double-bogey six to lose to opponent John Whitney's bogey five...
Wilson, a pudgy man who doesn't like to lose, snorts and mumbles under his breath when one of his men is down in a match. He really hasn't had to worry about being down too much lately though--Yale is working on a 39-match winning streak. It would be nice, Wilson thinks, to make Harvard number...
Bedridden for the past two weeks, an overdose of "Lox & Chitlins" administered heavy-handedly by chiropractor Conn Nugent induced repeated vomiting. Doctors called in prescribed second-hand ridicule of institutions, elaborate diction, convoluted sentence structure, redundancy and random scoffing, but The Harvard Lampoon grew increasingly incoherent and seemed to lose touch with humanity. Specialists flew in from as far afield as Michigan and Rhode Island, and succeeded in alleviating the patient's suffering in its last hours. Observers sometimes found it difficult to follow osteopath David McClelland's complicated juxtaposition of photographs, clever cartoons, nonsense and witty social commentary...