Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...setting out to challenge Lyndon Johnson, those not exactly friendly colleagues Gene McCarthy and Bobby Kennedy are also challenging history. The last time an incumbent President was denied renomination was in 1884, when James G. Blaine turned the trick against Chester Arthur, and went on to lose the general election...
...single bloc of votes in the district. At worst, he has made prophetic the ugly rantings of Theodore Bilbo, who had warned that some day "niggers would be trying to go to Congress." Griffin himself admitted that in time Mississippi may elect a Negro Congressman. "We can't lose," said Evers. "Every time we run we get closer to home...
With the collapse of the Progressives after World War II, this pattern was destroyed. Sen. Robert LaFollette Jr. rejoined the GOP, which his father had dominated a generation earlier, only to lose to Joseph McCarthy in the 1946 Republican primary. Since then, the Republicans have captured ever increasing control from the Progressives, who have shifted--along with the state as a whole--toward the Democratic Party...
...Bundy's real defense against tyranny lies in his reliance on the good sense and liberal values of men actually wielding power. He constantly qualified his plea for more government by adding "for freedom." He urged future administrators to avoid arrogance and never to lose their "sympathy" for the general public...
Sports are like women. Just when you think you're in shape for a big conquest, something goes wrong and you lose the struggle; maybe lose your pride, and gain a bit more experience, though less than you'd hoped for. But when you do win, it's so good that all your past heartbreaks don't seem so important. You've got what you've been sweating for; you're the champ...