Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hardest blow to believe came in Tom Musliner's first match, when the Crimson swordsman's foil broke against the second-ranked Violet fencer. Given an unfamiliar sword to continue with, Musliner went on to lose the match, but came back later to beat the first and third-ranked New Yorkers...
Last year he took an unbeaten team into the Cornell match and watched it lose, $3-0. in his 16 years as Harvard's coach, Pickett has never seen one of his teams best Cornell...
...would let him exhibit Oswald's body in a sideshow, another $100,000 if she would accompany the display). She still broods about last Nov. 22, and she feels particularly bad about Jackie Kennedy's loss. "It's hard enough to lose a bad husband," said Marina. "I wonder how it is to lose a good one." As the assassination anniversary rushed at her last week, Marina Oswald became increasingly tense and morose. At week's end she checked into a hospital. The cause: nervous exhaustion...
...Nichols play is a busy, gymnastic comedy of the absurd. Characters grunt and wheeze, climb stairs, assemble rusty iron beds, ride motor scooters, lose their pants, leap off bridges, throw knives. But the procession of sight gags only emphasizes the drift of the dialogue, supporting and not replacing the language of the playwright. As he approaches character from several directions, Nichols apparently feels particularly comfortable in a tenor of intelligent slapstick...
...marriage, her child, and her jewels to the corruptive religion of chance. Gambling is her life, she confesses. "Nothing else gives me as much pleasure. I just need one chip to be happy." To turn her luck, the chip-happy harpy latches onto the clerk. They win big and lose big, make love, win again, go on a spending spree to Monte Carlo and try the wheel once more. Of course, the odds are against them...