Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lose Money." The President has tried everything short of plastic surgery to remodel his image. To polish his TV personality, Johnson has tried contact lenses, light face makeup, and a variety of electronic prompting gadgets, only belatedly realizing that he winds up looking shifty-eyed and irritable. In desperation, L.BJ. of late has banned all TV cameras from his press conferences. "Every time I appear on television," he complained at a private meeting with network officials and broadcasters this month, "I lose money...
...nation last week offered a vibrant welcome to an Asian statesman who stands to lose more than an argument if the U.S. reneges on its commitments across the Pacific. Only ten months after a resounding election victory, President Ferdinand E. Marcos of the Philippines flew to Washington for a state visit that meant far more to him, and his hosts, than the usual red-carpeted round of pleasantries. For Marcos, it represented a threefold opportunity - to renew a long-standing bond of friendship with the U.S., to make a case for increased U.S. aid to bail out his stagnating econ...
...candidate who had most to lose from the riots in Atlanta's Negro slums was Ellis Arnall, a polished millionaire lawyer who in 1942 wrested the governorship from the legendary Gene Talmadge. Running as an outspoken racial moderate, Arnall, now 59, this year had to compete with five others for the Democratic nomination to succeed Governor Carl Sanders. His most formidable opposition came from segregationists, who did their utmost to exploit the specter of black power...
Wilson managed to prevent a walkout, largely because most African Commonwealth members had nothing to gain-and too many economic benefits to lose-by leaving. He offered no new tactics against Rhodesia, clung instead to the hope that his economic boycott would eventually bring Smith down...
...considers his own. "The principal cause of modern warfare," writes Ardrey, "arises from the failure of an intruding power correctly to estimate the defensive resources of a territorial defender." This is the same as saying that Japan would not have attacked the U.S. had it known it would lose-and that is precisely what Ardrey does say. He says many other things equally indigestible and undemonstrable: that the lower animals have as sophisticated a morality as man and can practice the principle of the greatest good for the greatest number; that victory in the jungle goes to the righteous rather...