Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...care ful and calculated but still a risk. The U.S. held on to West Berlin and ejected Soviet missiles from Cuba only by a calculated risk of war with the Soviet Union. Short of an all-out nuclear holocaust, which would level American cities, China after all stands to lose much more from a war than the U.S. So long as the U.S. creates the impression that it will do anything in Southeast Asia short of facing the real enemy-either militarily or diplomatically-China can simply sit back and wait...
Speed sells cars. So says the gospel, according to Ford and Chrysler. (General Motors takes a different road to the bank.) Last year Ford laid out $5,000 per car souping up its racing engines, only to lose the "stock car" championship to Chrysler, which installed custom-built, $12,000 "hemispherical-head" engines in its Plymouths. That was too heady for Bill France, owner of Florida's Daytona International Speedway and president of NASCAR, who has the funny idea that somebody besides a factory ought to be able to compete in the contest. He banned the "hemi-head"-which...
...meaningless sex lives are only symptoms of a sick culture, Coffin added. We try to lose our loneliness and boredom in sex because our superficial culture "distracts and pulls us apart more than it gives us meaning," he explained...
...prayed," she said, in her Chicago home. "I'm a Baptist, but I believe there's only one God." One thing taken away for good, however, with the aid of a diet, are 50 of Mahalia's original 250 Ibs. "Doctors say I have to lose at least 25 more Ibs.," she laughs, "But I'm afraid I'll end up looking like a skeleton...
...hole-in-one contest, and the winner had his choice of three prizes: a Rolls-Royce, a Ferrari, or "His and Hers" Jaguars. Al Reale, a restaurant owner from San Leandro, Calif., was the winner; he chose the Rolls. The U.S. Golf Association warned Reale that he would lose his amateur status if he took the car. That Al's no amateur...