Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...friends to save her from Götterdämmerung. A committee has been lobbying to prevent the building from being demolished to make way for an office skyscraper. Trouble is, the Met itself doesn't share their concern. The company, now housed in Lincoln Center, stands to lose $500,000 per annum in rent on the proposed office building; worse yet, the Met would have to pay a pretty penny just to keep its old home in repair. Taking all that into account, Brooklyn Democrat Emanuel Celler, 78, reported con brio in the U.S. House of Representatives...
Crumpled Craft. "The main fear is losing your rotor blade," says Don White, a mechanical engineer at Douglas Aircraft. "I imagine nearly every guy has had at least one engine failure, and this is something you can cope with. The gyrocopter just settles down to earth. But if you lose your rotor blade, you're out of luck. It's like a wing on an airplane." Fortunately, the gyrocopter is what pilots call "a forgiving plane"; the construction tends to give on crashing, and there is little mass to crush or entangle the pilot. "If he lands...
Died. Randy Turpin, 37, prizefighter son of a white Englishwoman and a British Guianan merchant seaman, who briefly tasted fame in 1951 by winning the middleweight crown from an overconfident and undertrained Sugar Ray Robinson only to lose the title two months later in a rematch, after which Turpin wound up wrestling for $30 a night; by his own hand (pistol); in Leamington Spa, England...
Goyette said that the University would also prefer that the tunnel be built to allow for future construction within the Radcliffe Yard. No buildings are now scheduled for the Yard, he said, but with "the shortage of land being what it is in Cambridge, we don't like to lose any good building sites...
...bill is an unanswered question. Some people have suggested that Congressmen were fed up with White House pressure tactics. According to this theory, Congressmen chose home rule as the issue on which to buck the Administration because they knew it was an issue their constituents couldn't care lose about...