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Word: losely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...system had existed. Hence the movement's energy almost necessarily flows into protest activity--which in a vague way symbolizes the "return" of a voice to the people in foreign affairs--rather than into thinking up persuasive alternative policies. It would seem that if Tocsin "went intellectual," it would lose its appeal to potential members. But if it goes in any other direction, it won't matter...

Author: By Michael W. Schwartz, | Title: Harvard Politics: The Careless Young Men | 6/13/1963 | See Source »

...landscape like a lone tree on an arid plain. His talent for winning elections has made him the No. 1 Republican of the nation's most populous state. Nine times he has run for public office-assemblyman, state senator, state controller, U.S. Senator-and he has yet to lose a race. Last year, when Pat Brown trounced Nixon and Democrats won nearly every statewide contest in California, Kuchel retained his Senate seat by a landslide margin of 728,000 votes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Like a Lone Tree | 6/7/1963 | See Source »

...Funny Thing. Even to say that the Broadway theater had lost $4,320,522 would have been misleading. To obtain the figure, the paper listed all the shows that had opened on Broadway this season, what they cost, and what they had thus far lost or earned. When you lose on Broadway you lose all at once, bang, bang, you're dead. But when you hit, it takes a long while, sometimes more than there is left of a season, to recover the investment. After that, the gravy rolls in for years. Hence it is possible to list with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadway: Dear Me, the Sky Is Falling | 6/7/1963 | See Source »

With the leaders so tightly bunched, a break could win the race, any mistake would surely lose it. On the 93rd lap, Gurney pulled into the Lotus pit for a routine tire change-and lost all chance of victory. A nervous mechanic misplaced his hammer; Colin Chapman finally found it and kicked it over to him. The delay cost Gurney an insurmountable 42.2 sec. Clark fared only slightly better: his one pit stop, on the 95th lap, took 32.3 sec.-and Jones shot back into the lead. Blocked by heavy traffic, Clark was unable to capitalize on Jones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auto Racing: Rhubarb at Indy | 6/7/1963 | See Source »

...conquest knows by subliminal heart that he need generally do no more than brush between meals or settle down with a stronger soap. At most, he has only to step up his vocabulary; sometimes it is simply a matter of developing more prominent pectoral muscles. It is how to lose friends that has become the contemporary American dilemma, and a tactical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Customs: How to Lose Friends By Really Trying | 5/31/1963 | See Source »

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