Word: losely
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Johnson's formula would not alter the traditional unit-rule system by which a candidate gets all of a state's electoral vote regardless of how small his popular plurality. Thus a nominee could still conceivably get a majority of the nationwide popular vote and yet lose the election. However, since it would make modest improvements without involving drastic change, there is a fair chance that this amendment will win the two-thirds majorities in Congress necessary to send it to the states for ratification...
...Burns, a history professor at Williams College and sometime adviser to John Kennedy, sees much that is good and necessary in what has happened. Yet he fears its future implications, when what he calls the "corruption of consensus" may ultimately cause the Government to become "flabby and complacent and lose the cutting edge of energy, initiative and innovation." He predicts that "the passion will have disappeared, and increasingly the compulsion of purpose will be dissipated...
...Those who wished India well could only rejoice at the smooth transition of power. Though India is a nation of 480 million people speaking 14 major languages, and plagued by deep religious antipathies, it had proved for the second time in less than two years that it could lose a leader and not lose its head. That fact alone was encouraging to the free world. For all its problems, India has somehow managed to maintain a true working democracy. As such, it stands as a remarkable example in the eyes of the world and a clear alternative in Asia...
...Name a song by Lonnie Donegan besides Does your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor on the Bedpost Overnight...
...women. He did not make his own living until his 30th year. ("I did not throw myself into the struggle for life. I threw my mother into it. I made a man of myself [at my mother's expense] instead of a slave," he wrote.) He did not lose his virginity until his 29th birthday, as a direct consequence, he protested, of having bought a respectable suit of clothes. "Virgo intacta still," he confided to his diary before the event. "Forced caresses," he noted gloomily a few days later, true to his ungallant belief that woman is the predator...