Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Plebes Lose...
...policeman justifies this "be tough" attitude as a matter of self defense. Underlining his position is the obvious inadequacy of juvenile courts and social agencies in deterring or rehabilitating juvenile offenders. Police officers rapidly lose confidence in courts and social agencies that return offenders to the streets, naively hoping they are rehabilitated. After arresting the same youth numerous times, the officer wonders what use, if any, are juvenile courts and youth counselors...
...control the present sixteen-member committee which meets once a month, than an active club with a large potentially-active membership. "If you can't prove that your family has been Republican for at least two generations, they consider you a Democrat. They would rather see their candidate lose at the polls than see their leadership challenged", one Lindsay aide said...
...Jones, a shrewd and articulate politician who has won four elections in the community (most recently as judge and as delegate to the Constitutional Convention). Jones emphasizes the thanklessness of the task he took on. "They told me the reason they wanted me is that I have everything to lose," he says. "If one penny is misplaced, I'm dead as a judge...
...techniques. Evelyn and her partisans claim that nobody has been able to invent a machine with enough range to test the super-reader. The college reading teachers say that nobody has asked them to build one. Neither side appears anxious to obtain indisputable truth. There is too much to lose. At this point, each has a vested interest in maintaining the status...