Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lady was furious, issued broadsides from behind the closed doors of her fashionable Left Bank apartment, fired off letters of protest to President Johnson. But she was not so furious as to lose her head completely. An American correspondent, trying to get Madame Nhu's firsthand version of the whole affair, knocked on the apartment door, was met by her daughter Le Thuy, and the following conversation took place: Le Thuy: Surely you know that Madame will not see journalists without payment in advance? Reporter: How much, if we just talk about the visa? Le Thuy: For how much...
...with Kong Le, McCulloch wrote: "Laos is one of the loveliest lands on earth, and it is a bitter travesty that such a land and the gentle people who inhabit it should be caught up in a war they are ill prepared to fight but cannot be allowed to lose...
...impressive. But he stood almost alone in Laos last week as the West's only effective battler against Communism. With only 3,000 ill-paid, ill-trained troops supplied only infrequently by airdrops, Kong Le's prospects seemed poor. His spirit did not. "Whether we win or lose," he said, "I'm afraid there is not much choice except to fight until we can fight no longer...
...food, medicine, supplies, and free tips on improved farming methods. Then come the leaflets foretelling the glorious rewards of working under the Communist state. The peasant is reminded of the dynamic figure of Ho Chi Minh to the north, a man as popular as Khanh is inept. We are losing because we do not send water pumps with our helicopters, language experts with our soldiers, medical supplies with our grenades, and some hope of a better life to accompany our guns. We lose because we do not have the support of the population. It is the "Ugly American" situation...
...series of trials in July. A dour Connecticut Yankee who started racing "dog boats" off Martha's Vineyard when he was twelve, Bill Cox is an old hand at judging tides and winds in protected waters, knows Long Island Sound as well as his own bathtub. He will lose that advantage when the twelves move to wide-open Rhode Island Sound. There, 6-ft. swells are common, and the boats sometimes race in 40-knot winds. But if he was worried, Cox did not show it. "The boat is great," he said. "This crew is the best...