Word: losely
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Back home in Indiana, Astronaut Frank Borman, 37, had a pilot's caution about the U.S. space program. "It is inevitable," he warned in Gary, "that we must lose a crew in space some day. All of us have lost friends in flying. I hope the public is mature enough to know that we must pay with money, and certainly with lives...
...defendants to "discover" (examine) evidence to be used against them at the trial. Characteristically, Traynor went on to enlarge the discovery privileges of prosecutors in 1961 (Jones v. Superior Court). Today, California probably tops all other states in liberal discovery rules. To deny such access, says Traynor, is "to lose sight of the true purpose of a criminal trial, to discover the facts...
...that the missing gold has flowed into the hands of rich speculators in industrial countries, particularly France and secrecy-loving Switzerland. This amounts to a bet that the world price of gold will rise, and it puts pressure on Europeans as well as the U.S. Treasury. Reason: both would lose if a crisis ended with devaluation of the dollar...
...constellation of Orion clearly showed that the stars-each about 25 times the mass of the sun-are ejecting great quantities of their matter at speeds as high as 4,000,000 m.p.h. Should they continue to expel matter at this rate, says Morton, they will eventually lose as much as 95% of their mass and turn into white dwarfs...
...Lafayette department store in Paris. Into the throng of late shoppers come two colossally inept hoods (Jean-Claude Brialy, Albert Remy), intent on hijacking 100 million francs from the cashier's office. Straight off, they discover that they have forgotten to bring tools. Detouring to "basement hardware," they lose more time through a plumbing mishap, Santa's payday and a jammed elevator-then, none too brilliantly, bring off the heist. A couple of minutes later, they lose the cash to a teen gang that has been holding up a tiny dry goods shop down the street...