Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only purpose-is to work with others for the good of all mankind," he said. "But let this be clear: if choice must be made, we would rather that men quarrel with our actions to preserve peace than to curse us through eternity for inaction that might lose both our peace and our freedom." Cattiness & Caterwauling. Of course, there was plenty of quarreling going on about Administration policy. In a "national teach-in" held in Washington's Sheraton Park Hotel ballroom and beamed to dozens of U.S. college campuses via radio and educational television channels, academicians of varying qualifications...
...fascinated his speech classes with his personal, pointed anecdotes, loved to throw out a single word and demand that his students ad-lib a speech about it. Once the word "string" stumped the class-but Lyndon promptly talked 15 minutes on the topic. Then, as now, Johnson hated to lose. His Sam Houston debate team came within one point of winning the state championship in 1931 -and Lyndon vomited backstage before he could congratulate the winners...
Former Senator Pierre Salinger, in contrast, forthrightly opposed 14; he stated that he would rather lose the election than refrain from taking a stand. He lost...
...last week won five out of seven games to boost their league lead to 2½ games. In 1964 the Yankees beat the Sox 12 out of 18, and Lopez can hardly wait to get even.' The Yankees are hurting," he chortled. "This is the year they lose." And who is going to win? "Well," drawled Lopez, "we've got a pretty good ball club out here in Chicago...
...Between 1956 and 1963 overweight Americans spent $16 million to buy 4,000,000 boxes of pink, green and yellow Regimen tablets, convinced by a massive advertising campaign that the tablets could help them lose as much as 28 pounds in 28 days without dieting. Last week, after a 13-week trial in a Brooklyn courtroom, a federal jury found the producer, Manhattan's Drug Research Corp., its president and its advertising agency guilty of conspiring to defraud the public. The judgment against the ad agency-Kastor, Hilton, Chesley, Clifford & Atherton, Inc.-was the first ever made against...