Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Impromptu Tollbooths. As U.S. forces faced up to the vital job of coping with the regular Communist armies, the hope was that when the big Red units began to topple in defeat, the guerrillas in the rear would lose heart. It seemed reasonable to believe that as their supply lines were bombed and as their soldiers were denied their customary rice rations, the Viet Cong would lose their stomach for revolution. So far, there are few signs that the elusive and dedicated guerrillas have lost either heart or stomach...
...served as U.S. Ambassador to Chile from 1964 until last month. Dungan is aware that a tough job lies ahead. But the position has some compensations. It pays $32,000, includes the use of a $90,000 mansion -which his seven children will help fill-and he can hardly lose, since there is no way for higher education in New Jersey to decline...
...become a proving ground for technocrats, a vast public spectacle, an affair of national pride, purpose and prestige that so far has cost the competitors, winners and losers combined, an estimated $50 million-with no guarantees on the investment except that somebody would win and somebody else would lose...
...family and friends were all against another campaign. "I told him not to," says Emil Sr.-and so did most of his friends, who argued that he had nothing to gain, everything to lose. Why risk the chance of going down in yachting annals as the man who finally lost the Cup for the U.S.? But the pressures were strong. For one thing, in 1961 he had become the second member of Jewish ancestry (although he is an Episcopal convert) ever elected to the New York Yacht Club...
...years as a roving loan officer for the First National Bank of Boston, Serge Semenenko doctored many an ailing corporation back to health with heavy doses of credit. Rarely, if ever, did the bank lose money on his risky loans. Thus, when Semenenko, 63, retired last month as vice chairman and head of First National's "special industries" division, the Brahmins he had worked for made appropriate farewells. The bank and its directors, said Chairman Roger Damon, "look forward to a continuing relationship...