Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...G.O.P.'s conservative wing, thus was able to prevail over the badly fragmented moderates. Now, Reagan's ascendancy poses the threat of a conservative split. Reagan, in fact, said of Nixon to one Republican Governor: "This guy's a loser. Any guy who can lose to Pat Brown can't win the presidency...
...specifically asked to be exempted. Michigan's legislature duly voted for exemption, largely because the state lies on the far western rim of the Eastern Time Zone, making for 10 p.m. sunsets in some western towns under Daylight Saving. Residents of more easterly Detroit, however, were loath to lose the extra hour of leisure-time illumination that Daylight Saving gave them. To get the hour back again, they resorted to the referendum...
...done it, but if rockets hadn't been installed, would there be a Cuba now? No," he answers quickly. "It would have been wiped out and, if that's true, it means our transportation of rockets was justified. It cost us money, but we didn't lose a single man. What was the American aim?" he goes on. "They aimed to liquidate socialist Cuba. Our aim was to preserve Cuba, and Cuba still exists." Recalling the tense hours of the confrontation, Khrushchev said one night he slept fully dressed on his studio sofa. "I did not want...
...reaches his peak, of course, in the Trial Scene -- which Kahn has staged admirably, and which is marred chiefly by a mechanical delivery on Portia's part that extends even to the "quality of mercy" speech. Carnovsky's playing throughout this scene is a marvel. Here he lets himself lose control twice and shatters courtroom decorum by pounding on the judge's bench as though he were Khruschchev banging his shoe in the United Nations assembly. His modulation from this to his final "I am content" is masterly. When he makes his final exit, he stumbles on the stairs, then...
...have moved recently to a new residency within the country. Only 12 states accept absentee ballots from the the three million Americans overseas. And millions who move each year face archaic residency requirements which interfere with their right to vote. It is illogical for mobile or overseas citizens to lose their franchise in national elections, especially presidential elections, and there is no reason why Congress should not pass this legislation before the end of the current session...