Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Union. In 1949, after he had trouble with infiltrating Communists, he broke off from the U.E., founded the I.U.E. under the auspices of the C.I.O. He brought it to a peak membership of 397,000 in 1956. Then, owing mostly to Carey's dictatorial methods, it began to lose members...
When foreign central banks exercise the legal right to cash their dollars in for gold, they drain gold from the United States. This decline in the gold stock causes people to lose confidence in the current rate of exchange. An initial decline in the gold stock, resulting in a loss of confidence, could precipitate a "run" on the dollar, forcing the U.S. to devalue. And because countries back their currencies with dollar and pound reserves, devaluation of these currencies--or even the fear of devaluation--could cause a world-wide crisis...
...small tree, the tree collapses. When a little girl he admires approaches him in the playground, he gets so nervous he ties his peanut-butter sandwich in knots. When he wins a bowling trophy-a rare triumph-his name turns out to be spelled wrong. "How can we lose when we're so sincere?" he cries after losing his umpteenth baseball game. "Charlie," says Milt Caniff, creator of the adventure strip Steve Canyon, "is everybody's Walter Mitty...
Nice Boys Lose. Certainly much of Schulz's own life is in the strip: the harrowing little frustrations, the countless near-misses. "I guess I'm 100% Charlie Brown. Sixty million people read about the dumb things I did when I was little." Born in Minneapolis in 1922, Schulz was dubbed Sparky (after the rambunctious, blanket-draped horse in the strip Barney Google) when he was two days old, and the name stuck. As a boy, Sparky avidly read the comics, sketched illustrations of Sherlock Holmes stories and of his own dog Spike (Snoopy's model...
...University gym and for whom reality is wearing an undergraduate's outfit and rooting for Columbia's football team. He does not understand the game; it is enough that the Lions' miserable performance provides a stern test of his elected involvement in life. After the Lions lose the big one to Princeton, he can think of no more fitting show of unimpaired allegiance than a joyous death leap into the Hudson River, crying against the night "We number one in the Ivory Leak...