Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Democratic Senator Gale McGee urged Johnson to put purely political considerations behind him and concentrate on winning the war. "The issue is so critical that if I were in a position to talk to the President," said McGee, "it would be with the suggestion that he be prepared to lose, if necessary, on Eastern Asia, rather than tack with the political winds...
Sociological Theories. Her disguise as Lone Ranger pitted against the Beacon Hill and Cambridge Establishment is reminiscent of James Michael Curley's durable appeal to Bostonians of another generation. And the notion that Kennedy men cannot lose in cod country is illusory: Mayor John Collins, who is retiring after two terms, originally beat a Kennedy endorsee. Both Lawyer Hicks, 48, and Lawyer White, 37, are Irish Catholics, but Mrs. Hicks is the daughter of Judge William Day, whose memorial is a boulevard in the Irish quarter of South Boston, and her address allows her to warble Southie...
...reason for their lack of success, and the astounding performance of the 1967 Red Sox, is as hackneyed as it is true. The old Sox were cursed by a losing mentality. So what if you finish eighth or ninth, whether you win this game or lose it? It's not going to help anybody's paycheck. The players had one overriding interest: themselves. Such self-interest obviously hurt the team, and it puts incredible pressure on the individual players. They are fighting a battle alone...
...this point, however, that the Administration has more to gain and nothing to lose by articulating its idea of a post-war Vietnam clearly, and articulating it in terms less intransigent than in the past...
...dean's reply, delivered late in May, was almost totally negative. Ford and Elder rejected the pay increase outright. They offered two new proposals on the junior-senior rate differential, both of which meant that the teaching fellows might lose as much as they would gain. Only with respect to work load measurement were the deans conciliatory, and even there they would accept only adjustments within the old system...