Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dwindling Reserves. Though tourists and stay-at-home bargain hunters may well save some money on things like British Jaguars and Irish linens, devaluation is likely to prove a severe drain on Lyndon Johnson's dwindling political reserves. If the President makes substantial spending cuts, he stands to lose votes among those directly affected. If he gets his tax increase, he stands to annoy everybody-and the closer to Election Day 1968 the increase is enacted, the more annoyance he is likely to arouse. Nevertheless, nearly all his economic aides-and many businessmen-consider the tax increase essential...
...that happens, Lyndon Johnson may regret that he did not persuade John Connally to stay on. A heavy turnout for the Republican Party in Johnson's home state in a presidential year would be more than an embarrassment: Johnson could conceivably lose Texas in the national election...
...post-Reconstruction period. The new movement quickly developed its list of fanatical leaders: Stokeley Carmichael, H. Rap Brown, Ron Karenga and, in his special way, Cassius Clay. It fed largely on the despair and disaffection of the poor, the uneducated, the slum-bound Negro who had nothing to lose but his life...
...will continue until the Government indicates that students interfering with campus recruiters will not lose their deferments, Kirk declared...
...just as well that the operative click never comes, because when it does, De Vries will stop being desperately funny and become plain desperate. The thing to remember as the puns cascade down the pages is that his characters (and he, too) would rather keep their earthly uncertainties than lose the capacity to keep trying for something better...