Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Anybody Win? It was still a little early last week for a pennant party in the National League. First, somebody had to win the pennant-and the contenders all seemed to be doing their best to lose. The San Francisco Giants committed 23 errors in 13 games. The Pittsburgh Pirates' problem was erratic pitching: Woody Fryman allowed only four hits when he beat the Giants 3-1; but against the Atlanta Braves, he gave up six runs in four innings. The Los Angeles Dodgers had all they could do just to show up for a game. In addition...
...International Studies drive has to raise $2.5 million by the end of the calendar year, or lose an equal amount which the Ford Foundation pledged if it could be matched. It is known that there is little chance of meeting the deadline...
...Lubera. Cleveland hired 650 new teachers, still faced a shortage of 235. It began hiring any college graduates, even if they could teach only one period a day, yet wound up with 50 jobs filled by substitutes and retired teachers who, by law, must quit within 60 days or lose their pensions. Kansas City's director of school personnel, Robert Ward, says it takes about 50 telephone calls to find five substitutes when a regular teacher is sick-and on some days 150 are absent...
...Richards suggest that drug-induced mystical experiences may have a profound therapeutic effect on the subjects. Those who experience such releasing of their intuitive unconscious claim "increased personality integration, greater sensitivity to the authentic problems of other persons, responsible independence of social pressure." They sense "deeper purposes in life, lose their anxiety of death and guilt...
True in His Fashion. Littler is nothing if not true to himself. He did his level best to lose the World Series, but it just wasn't enough. On the final day, going into the 625-yd. par-five 16th hole at the Firestone Country Club, he was leading Geiberger by two strokes, Nicklaus and Casper by four. So what did Gene do? He shanked a little pitch shot into a water hazard, took a double bogey, and dropped back into a tie with Nicklaus-who sank a nine-foot putt for a birdie. When Al Geiberger birdied...