Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard has always been proud to consider itself an experimental college, and yet seems to lose its initiative during the long hot summer months. It appears that the Summer School rules were made with little reflection--a surprising lack of resourcefulness on behalf of the Summer School administration...
...doesn't have his hand in the cash box he's doing a good job. My campaign was for the people in Hough a symbol of hope, a chance to get at least a fair shake. Now they riot because they have no hope and nothing to lose...
...question was far from capricious. The Supreme Court says that allegedly obscene material can lose the free-speech protection of the First Amendment whenever (among other things) it clearly affronts "contemporary community standards relating to the description or representation of sexual matters." Because obscenity is a federal constitutional issue, adds the court, those standards must be national rather than local. Does this really tell lower courts how to decide obscenity cases...
...people love each other," Hemingway once wrote, "there can be no happy end to it," meaning one must die before the other. "Being a widow is no picnic," says Betty Bacall, "you lose your place," a shattering experience that has befallen 1,900,000 women in the 40-to-60 age group. "I had to go on because of my children, and I had to because of my own sense of survival. Bogey's belief always was that if one mourns too long, one mourns for oneself rather than for the one who's gone. Life...
...followers included abolition of footbinding in a portmanteau program of feminine emancipation. Even then, millions of women obdurately refused to unbind-and not only because letting the feet out was almost as painful as binding them up. They simply feared that if they lost the lotus they would lose their man. As it turned out, most men were secretly pleased to have a wife who could also stand up and do housework...