Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...call his tin miners off the job. By the morning after the election, most of the country's tin production had shut down. Paz coolly shrugged it off. "The strike," he said, "will last only three or four days because the miners don't want to lose their production bonus." Sure enough, three days later, the miners were back...
Wilson may also have had in mind a boycott's effect on British industry, which sells $500 million worth of goods yearly to South Africa. If such sales were blocked, thousands of British workers could lose their jobs...
...attacks on referees, came scrambling over the 9-ft. barbed-wire-topped fence separating the stands from the playing field. And the cry went up: "Ahí va Bomba [There goes the Bomb]!" The cops caught him just before he could reach the referee. "I hate to see Peruvians lose," he muttered as the police hustled him off the field. "I don't know what happens to me. I get hot all over...
...from the actual practice of journalism. His ghostwriter, Reporter Thomas E. Michael of the Memphis Commercial Appeal, last consulted the dentist nine years ago. "I'm very much by myself," says Michael, who has since managed six Middlecoff bylines a week-for steadily dwindling readership. Most golf columns lose readers at about the same rate that their custodians lose tournaments. And since Middlecoff hasn't been winning any lately, his syndication is down to 30 papers from a high...
...prediction of the result. CBS was first by 37 minutes in announcing Henry Cabot Lodge's New Hampshire victory at 7:18 p.m., only 18 minutes after the polls closed. NBC came back strong, was first in Illinois by 55 minutes and Oregon by 22 minutes, only to lose out again, by four minutes, to CBS in Maryland. To cover California's primary, NBC has signed up 34,000 people to gather fast returns at the precinct level, mostly members of the Mormon Relief Society, which supplied volunteers in exchange for NBC's $10,000 donation...