Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most unpleasant aspects of my training as a marine was the "gas chamber," in which marines learn what to do if attacked with gas of the kind used by Colonel Utter in Viet Nam [Sept. 17]. I would sooner be gassed than lose an arm or my life. If by using tear gas we can spare lives, then I say "Congratulations, Colonel Utter...
...miles into Pakistani territory and then dug in: infantry in the front line, tanks huddled beneath trees and behind houses in the second, and in the third, artillery massed beneath camouflage netting. The Indians reasoned that Pakistan would have to drive these four columns from their soil or lose both the military and the political initiative...
...founded rumors of an imminent merger of the World-Telegram and Journal-American that might put 600 Guild members out of work, Murphy also wants a pledge from the Times that it will hire some of his displaced Guildsmen. And he wants management to guarantee that no Guildsman will lose his job except by attrition: by quitting or retiring. The Times has given such a guarantee to the I.T.U., but is willing to give it only to those Guild members hired as full-time employees before March 31, 1965, the date of expiration of the last contract. Finally, two lesser...
...Manhattan criminal lawyer. A comedy successor to The Defenders, it is suffused with a breath of fresh (for TV) wit and literacy, and Falk steeps the role in a New York City boy's moxie and malarky. After winning a case, he shrugs: "You can't lose them all." Not in court anyway, though Falk blows enough on the ponies and at craps to stay hopelessly in arrears on his rent and alimony payments. All of which should make him an empathic and irresistible anti-hero to all but a handful of complaining image makers from the American...
...over par, to beat hard-luck Bob Dickson by one stroke; at the Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Okla. Penalized four strokes in the second round when somebody (apparently, accidentally) put an extra club in his bag, Dickson battled back, only to bogey the last two holes and lose to Murphy, a stubby, cigar-chewing undergraduate from the University of Florida...