Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...began calmly enough by making it plain that he wanted Britain's 50,000 troops to stay in Singapore. What he was worried about, he said, was that London itself might some day lose interest, adding: "If the British withdraw, I am prepared to go on with the Australians and the New Zealanders. But I am not prepared to go on with the Americans." When someone curiously asked why, Lee was ready and willing to answer...
...islands 1,000 miles off the coast of East Africa, that they were forever getting lost. The Arabians of the 10th century thought that the islands were where Sindbad the Sailor discovered the mystical, magnetic mountain in the Sea of Zanj. Portuguese navigators found them in 1501, only to lose track of them again. British General Charles ("Chinese") Gordon, who landed there 84 years ago, seriously believed that...
...manufactured the car's tires. Against G.M., they made two charges: that the Corvair's doors and door handles were too weak to withstand the pressure of a rollover, and that because of a poorly designed rear axle, the rear wheels tended to tuck in and lose all traction in a swerve...
Things got no better with age. Whatever he did offended somebody. On breadlines he asked for toast. When President Johnson declared war on poverty, he went out and threw a hand grenade at a beggar. To lose weight he started eating saccharin-and got artificial diabetes. He fell in love with a promiscuous girl, so promiscuous she became a hostess in an alley...
...partly because, after Las Vegas, London has become the biggest gambling center in the world. So big, in fact, that a few clubs can now afford the Vegas gambit of flying in big gamblers, most expenses paid, and count on making a profit from the money their guests lose...