Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enemies. However, I never imagined that my political attitude would be used to injure the memory of my parents. I consider that it is not worth the trouble to start a polemic, since the struggle that all Cubans have ahead of them does not permit me to lose time clearing up stories without foundation. As our apostle José Martí well said: "He who goes in search of mountains does not stop to pick up stones in the road...
Jagan ordered the walkout last February to force recognition of his union by sugar growers, and create enough disturbance to make Britain postpone this autumn's election, which he would most probably lose. He failed on both counts. All he accomplished was to weaken the country's economy and touch off a vicious racial war between his 295,000 East Indian supporters and the colony's 190,000 determinedly anti-Jagan Negroes...
...evils of NATO membership, and Erhard would be able to raise at will the question of German reunification. Though Khrushchev still has to say "da" before a formal invitation from Bonn is forthcoming. But there was no question that both leaders seemed to feel that they had nothing to lose by such a meeting -and possibly something to gain...
...General Assembly to pay for U.N. peace-keeping forces in the Congo and the Gaza Strip. Russia claims the assessments were illegal, has refused to pay for two years. But the U.N. Charter says that any nation whose payments are more than two years in arrears may lose its right to vote, and the U.S. is determined to see that the charter is en forced. The Kremlin's answer: any such attempt will wreck the United Nations...
...rapid growth has involved the soft-drink makers in a feud with the sugar industry, since drinks for the weight watchers contain such sugar substitutes as saccharin and cyclamates. Sugar refiners are spending $1,000,000 on ads to downgrade the benefits of diet drinks, claiming that "trying to lose weight by drinking them is like trying to lighten an airplane by emptying the ashtrays." Last week Royal Crown Cola, whose Diet-Rite has captured half of the diet-cola market, retaliated with its own ads. Calling its critics "sugar daddies," Royal Crown said: "If it's wrong...