Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...question in swimming was not how many medals the U.S. would win but how many it would lose. In Tokyo's Olympic pool, the dreams of other aquatic nations dissolved in the foam churned up by 49 crew-cut boys and pink-cheeked girls who averaged 18 years of age, fretted like all adolescents about acne and freckles-and swam as if sharks were snapping at their toes...
Last week's Columbus Day parade indicated that Bellotti may also lose much of the typically Democratic Italian vote. The ex-Governor outshone his opponent as they marched together through Boston's East End, a Democratic and Italian stronghold. Many young woman and children chanted "Volpe, Volpe," and a few broke police lines to besiege the GOP candidate with hugs, kisses, and flowers. Later in the week, Volpe also seemed popular with Lawrence's Italian laborers. As one textile worker said, "Both candidates real nice, you know Italian. But I take Volpe, I think, he so nice...
...Tigers haven't met any of the strongest lines in the league. They run into all of them, Harvard, Yale, and Cornell, in the last three weeks. If they come into those three games unbeaten, they can scarcely avoid winning or tying for the title. But if they lose between now and then, they may be in trouble...
McCloskey added that the Republicans had risked the nomination of "an extreme right candidate" because they felt that any Republican candidate for President would be defeated. He said that they chose to ignore the possibility that "an extremist candidate might lose so badly as to pull down secondary Republican candidates in his wake...
...ordinary logic on his stage. He thereby enables himself to play on his audience's emotions in ways that ordinary logic would forbid. By expanding the range of responses which he can try for, however, he also creates difficulties for the players: When the action lacks logic, the actors lose one guide to interpreting their lines...