Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...changed, depending on which side was making the complaint. With only 41 U.N. observers on hand to patrol nearly 1,000 miles of contested border, it was impossible to tell who was the true aggressor. Clearly, both India and Pakistan had a lot to gain - and little to lose - by trying to grab more territory while they could. Old U.N. hands recalled that it took 123 days for the Suez cease fire to really take effect. The Indo-Pakistani cooling-off period was likely to take just as long - or longer...
...Homers. They had reason to feel safe. The only way they could lose the pennant would be to wake up. The only man on the club who was batting as high as .290 was a pitcher, and the team's top slugger had hit only 12 home runs all year. (Not counting "Dodger homers," in which, as explained last week by Shortstop Maury Wills: "I get a base on balls, take second on a sacri fice, steal third, and come home on a fly ball.") But just the night before, the Dodgers had won their twelfth straight game...
...while, the way their pitchers were going, it looked as though the Dodgers would never lose a game. Then they did just that, 2-0, to Milwaukee.The Giants lost too, and next day Sandy Koufax clinched the pennant, beating the Braves 4-1 and getting his name in the record book still another time-by tying the modern National League record for victories in one season (26) by a lefthander. The Braves' lone run was actually an achievement of sorts: it was the first scored off Koufax in his last six victories. In 78 innings, Los Angeles pitchers...
Then there is Willie Mosconi, 52, the greatest of all, who gave up the pool circuit eight years ago, fearing for his life. The game had turned his hair grey at 21, and during tournaments he used to lose eight pounds and often chewed his tongue until blood ran. At last, in 1957, after he had won the world championship for the 15th time, a stroke convinced him that he ought to quit...
...Harvard has a long, agonizing history of losing games it is just not supposed to lose. Two years ago, the Crimson severed Dartmouth's 15-game winning streak only to be beaten the following week by Penn, the perennial peasantry of the Ivy League. Last year, Harvard whipped a strong Massachusetts team 20-14 and then ran into little Bucknell and a 24-31 disaster. On a number of other occasions, the Crimson has beaten the tough teams on its schedule and then crumpled the next week before inferior opponents...