Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Press had suffered from a double trouble - and either would have been enough to kill it. The first problem was the paper itself. Once the feistiest daily in town, with an insatiable appetite for spirited crusades, the Press seemed to lose heart as rapidly as it lost readers. It lost touch with its community until, in the end, the Press's only municipal role was that of the paper that nobody needed and almost nobody read...
...each day, those still waiting had to be dispersed by guards; the lucky ones hauled their 60-lb. sacks of cartwheels off to root through them for valuable Morgans. How many-if any-of them turned up is still unknown. But after all, the collectors couldn't lose-even if there was not a Morgan or other rarity in the lot. All they had to do was turn their bag in to the nearest bank and get their handy paper money back. And this, to the Treasury's distress, was just what many...
...barriers to Pierre's candidacy. But the whimsical Salinger should appreciate the ultimate irony in the fact that even if he clears that obstacle, he cannot vote for himself in the primary because he is not a registered California voter. He can only hope that he does not lose by one vote...
...week's end, with their grapefruit-league schedule well under way, the hustling Yankees had four wins in eight games, were showing only flashes of midseason form. Manager Berra was copping his first plea. "Just in case we lose a few and you guys want to know why," he grumped, "we ain't playing to win down here...
...Charles production is worth seeing just to witness the performance of Olympia Dukakis as the step-daughter. Her Mediterranean face captures beautifully the confused horror of her relationship with her step-father. Better than any of the other actors, she is able to lose herself in a memory, ignoring the astonished eyes of both the rehearsal cast and the audience. Above all, she has amazing control over her body; her stiff shivers in the hat shop red-light scene convey all the repulsiveness of her step-father's shameless sexuality...