Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flying hours, taught himself to fly the Skyraider in a mere three days. He flew behind Ky in the first raid on North Viet Nam last February, returned with six holes in his plane. "I never look at the ground fire," he says. "If you do, you lose the target. And, to be truthful, I do not like to think about ground fire...
...expense of a questioner's imprecise wording were present, but in obvious moderation. The Bundy who remained to chat informally with students for 15 minutes was a thoroughly charming and personable man, listening respectfully to criticism and replying politely. Never, either during or after the session, did Bundy lose his composure, raise his voice, or openly indicate displeasure...
...little to dispel the impression. When OAS cars arrived outside Caamaño's headquarters, hostile crowds closed around them chanting, "With or without the OAS, we will win!" At a rally in the rebel area, he shouted to a crowd of 8,000: "We will never lose!" "Yankees out! Yankees out!" chanted the mob. The rebel newspaper Patria-Fatherland-called the Americans "the direct inheritors of the Nazism of Adolf Hitler...
...more astonishing because he is a pacer and does his racing in harness, towing a two-wheeled cart and driver behind.* Handicapping harness horses is every bit as confusing as rating thoroughbred "flat" racers, and even then there are dozens of ways for the best horse to lose. He can get caught in a "blind switch"-boxed in by opponents' sulkies. He may be startled by the flick of the whip into "breaking"-going off stride. He can be "hung" wide on the turns and lose too much ground to make up. Or he may simply draw an impossible...
These developments have incensed U.S. fishermen, who argue that Bristol Bay sockeye are American fish that have been studied and improved with $50 million in U.S. tax money. This year, the U.S. stands to lose more than in the past: the sockeye will number some 27 million, a five-year high. As the fish take the far turn home in the critical first three weeks of this month, the Japanese will probably net up to 7,000,000 of them. Since 12 million must be spared for spawning, this gives U.S. fishermen a chance at less than half the crop...