Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Conservatives and to give Wilson a majority of 167. The National Opinion Poll is showing a swing to Labour of five and a quarter per cent, enough to give Labour a majority over the Conservatives of around 190. If the swing is 4.3 per cent or more, Heath will lose his own constituency of Bexley...
...acutely sensitive to misinformation that he has refused to divulge information not only before he acts, but afterwards as well. His role last year in getting aluminum price increases rescinded has never been fully explained. The predictable White House rejoinder is that the President doesn't want to lose the support of the business community. But President Kennedy, in greater need of additional support than Johnson has ever been, did not suppress a blow-by-blow account of his 1962 fight with Roger Blough over steel prices...
...burgeoning economy of the Reconstruction Era, many a robber baron found that a state legislature could be bought and, with it, a Senate seat. When one Senator seriously proposed a bill unseating those Senators whose places had been purchased, Senator Weldon Heyburn of Idaho replied: "We might lose a quorum here, waiting for the courts...
...orchestras has a first-rate group there for the organizing. Following Boston's lead, the Chicago Symphony this season inaugurated a similar series of nine chamber-music concerts; five have been held so far, and all have been sellouts. If the trend develops, the music public can hardly lose; neither can the orchestras. As Boston Symphony President Henry Cabot observes: "Our job is to make music around this neck of the woods, and the more music we have, the better...
...already-begun do-se-do maneuvering--Bobby to the left, Hubert to the right. Kennedy can keep making more and more liberal statements and never risk his standing with basically conservative big-city Roman Catholic voters that form the bedrock of his support. Humphrey, on the other hand, can lose the temperamental self-conscious liberal vote all too easily. There is evidence--boos at the California Democratic Council convention, for instance--that this group is already slipping away from...