Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...allenands." Everywhere he went, De Gaulle ate heartily, but at the Volgograd hydroelectric station he met his match. The station officials had prepared a 300-lb. sturgeon stuffed with caviar. De Gaulle eyed it skeptically and said: "There always has to be a victim." Only once did he lose patience with his hosts. In Kiev, being shown a bas-relief of "all the peoples of the world," De Gaulle snapped: "Good. Since everyone is there, we can go away...
Most Americans know the folly of dying without a will. Under the widely different state formulas devised for such cases, a widow can lose one-half of her husband's estate to his relatives. Equally alarming to newly affluent Americans is the high cost of dying with a will. For good reasons, a will must be proved valid (probated) in state courts known variously as probate, surrogate, orphans or chancery. Unfortunately, many such courts' archaic methods can tie up an estate for years, devour 20% or more of its value in legal fees-and force the dead...
...more timeless and universal than Who will get Ursula? and Who will be the next ace to fell 20 British planes? The only way to help such synthetic melodrama to a climax is to reveal, once more, the unstartling news that the Kaiser's forces are about to lose World...
...guess is that Democrats will lose either 28 or 54 seats: 28 if their general level of popularity drops about 5 per cent (with most of the freshmen holding up somewhat better); 54 if the general level drops much more than 5 per cent, and this drags under almost all the marginal freshmen. Incidentally, the loss in Democratic votes will understate the drop in "liberal votes; conservative Democrats are likely to regain a few of the seats they lost to segregationist Goldwater Republicans in the South...
...most voters' eyes. He takes a hard line on Vietnam, and his election as Governor would be the biggest hawk victory of the year. Those of us who view this prospect with trepidation can take comfort in the fact that Los Vegas bettors, who are not in business to lose money, will not take any bets on Governor Brown. Though he is lagging behind in the polls (as he was against Knowland in 1958 and Nixon in 1962), they consider him a sure winner. It is a pleasure to be able to report at least one event of heart-warming...