Word: losely
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Publisher Dorothy Schiff was tearfully threatening to shut down her paper unless she could save money by using a computerized typesetter. Bertram Powers, local boss of the International Typographical Union, was adamantly demanding 50% of any wage savings. Between the two, they were generating rumors that Manhattan might soon lose another daily. Then, after a week's trial run with the computer at the Post, Bert Powers went off on vacation. The paper went back to its old-fashioned Linotype machines, and Mrs. Schiff, apparently accepting at least a temporary defeat, announced the negotiations had been adjourned sine...
...French say that the situation was hopeless, that's simply not true." The guessing in Brussels was that De Gaulle, furious at the way his bluff had been called, was simply raising the ante. As for the threat to the Common Market, no people in Europe would lose more from the breakup than France's farmers. It was hard to believe that even De Gaulle would risk such a blow to their pocket-books-particularly in the very week that he chose to set the next national election. He has until...
...every year. Desire and hustle are not just cliches tossed around by sportswriters and Little League managers; they are qualities which can turn an average team into a good one--witness last year's Philadelphia Phillies. But the Red Sox collect their paychecks every month whether they win or lose--and they don't seem to care...
...foot lead, understroking Vesper 40 to 42 at the start. But the quarter mile mark was the last time the Philadelphia crew was headed. With a twenty-stroke burst they shot past Harvard and picked up the three-quarters of a length they were never to lose...
...this, but they have their hands full just competing for help. Because labor has become more precious than goods, German manufacturers wink at pilferage that costs them an estimated $1 billion a year. Dutch housebuilders commonly pay their men "black salaries"-10% to 20% above the legal limit-or lose them; last year 18 small Dutch textile mills closed for lack of workers. Belgian coal companies, which fly in weekly planeloads of Turkish miners, cry that Dutch and German labor poachers steal their recruits almost as fast as they arrive...