Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...revolution threw out the "tin bar ons"-the Patino, Aramayo and Hochschild families-and nationalized the mines that provide 90% of Bolivia's exports. Under state management, however, payrolls became featherbeds and machinery wore out. The once-rich mines now lose an average $8,500,000 a year. Only lately has Comibol, the government mining company, reached an agreement with the U.S., the Inter-American Development Bank and West Germany for a $38 million modernization of the tin industry-provided Comibol reduced its padded 27,000-man payroll. Last August, when the first 1,015 workers were laid...
...packing public meetings of the board, white homeowners backed Willis. Businessmen and educators chimed in to doubt the wisdom of dropping an expert administrator under pressure from one minority over one issue. The board majority, which had hoped to make Willis compromise on Negro demands but never intended to lose him, recognized that it was out on a limb and refused his resignation. After a week of reconsidering, Superintendent Willis withdrew...
Reading newspapers may be a national habit, but it is by no means an addiction. When strikes silence a city's press, the papers involved invariably lose circulation after recovering their voices. And when a paper dies, many of its readers seem to follow it to the grave. Last week, with Hearst's New York Mirror only just put to death (TIME, Oct. 25), the question was: Where did all those 835,000 Mirror readers...
...several minutes after the gun had ended Harvard's 17-13 upset victory Saturday. Not for 15 games had the Green rooters seen their idols fail to vanquish their opponents. At the post-game press conference, Indian coach Bob Blackman shook his head and said, "We knew we would lose sometime, but it's hard to believe the way it finally happened...
...Nabokov the greatest ever written in Russia. Schmidt's version happily avoids the ponderousness of other efforts, and is marked by smoothness and consistency. However, it contains an oppressive use of "damn," "bastards," "sons of bitches" and similar expressions. In moderation they can be funny, in excess they quickly lose their impact. "Bastards" is not an inherently funny word, as Schmidt would have us believe...