Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FIANCES. Italy's Ermanno Olmi (The Sound of Trumpets) brings total mastery of his art to this wispy tale of a long-engaged couple who must lose each other to rediscover their love...
...sound, "nonfissiparous" image. Though Macleod's caustic chronicle came in reply to a fulsomely pro-Macmillan book by Journalist Randolph Churchill, and thus allowed Macleod to appear only to be setting the record straight, many Britons sensed the beginnings of a new leadership battle. If the Conservatives lose to the Labor Party in the next election, one wing of the Tories might well claim that Sir Alec, as an unnaturally evolved leader, ought not to lead the party in opposition...
...campaign promises. What can a judge promise? To administer justice fairly and impartially to all who come before him. He can promise neither more nor less." Yet the judge's name appears near the bottom of a ticket, and it is the top candidates who usually win or lose for the entire slate-for reasons that have little to do with judicial competence...
...there are dangers involved in reunions behind the Curtain. Many West Germans try to smuggle their relatives out at the end of their vacations and often get arrested in the process-14 in 1962 and three in Hungary alone last year. East Germans seen consorting with "Western agents" can lose their travel privileges and even face trial. But the reunions continue. Last November Czechoslovakia opened her borders to West Germany, and already plans are being laid by thousands on both sides of the Wall. "I'm jammed with bookings for Easter in Prague," said one travel bureau owner last...
...Forrestal on the Democratic ticket. Forrestal had both political ambitions and political glamour. "He has the bearing given to goodhearted gangsters in the movies," Jonathan Daniels wrote. "There is the suggestion of the possibility of violence and the surface of perfectly contained restraint." But Forrestal was convinced Truman would lose in 1948; he stayed out of politics and refused to campaign for the party. In fact, he met a few times with Dewey, giving rise to the rumor that he was making a deal with the Republicans to stay on as Defense Secretary. Three months after Truman was inaugurated, Forrestal...