Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cambodia's medieval Khmer kings, he once performed slapstick parts in movies (which he produced himself) and has often played slapstick politics. Friends seriously reported last week that two contributing reasons for Sihanouk's bad mood might be that 1) he had been crash-dieting to lose 15 Ibs. in ten days, and 2) the U.S. transferred a former military advisory chief with whom the Prince enjoyed playing volleyball. The Prince himself accused the U.S. of supporting a clandestine radio, on South Viet Nam soil, run by the Prince's political opposition (the U.S. denied the charge...
Maclean's voice has intensity, but his bland, uniform and almost constant intensity fails to convince or even, after a while, to entertain. All three of these actors often speak too rapidly. They lose good lines and make many passages difficult to understand...
...street. The forward pass, he insists, is strictly for masochists. "When you throw the ball, four things can happen -and only one of them is good." The best offense, he says, is a good defense: "If the other team can't score on you, you can't lose. You can tie, but you can't lose." Royal's Longhorns content themselves with grinding out bite-sized chunks of yardage, and to make sure that they don't try anything foolish, he calls a fair number of plays from the bench. When in doubt, he punts...
...only possible death is to lose belief in this truth simply because the great end comes slowly, because time is long...
...competition from smaller bookmakers like Ladbroke's (whose clients include the royal family) and from football pools. The pools, playing it safer, give winners only a cut of all the money collected, but the "fixed odds" bookmakers such as Hill set their odds in advance, and sometimes lose more than they take in. Last season terrible weather ("all that bloody ice and snow") ruined odds, postponed football matches, cost Hill a loss of $1,600,000 on his football business. "Fixed odds is a very risky business," says Hill...