Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...town leaders recognize NAACP members as the true spokesmen of the Negro community. Instead they refer to a wealthier class of local Negroes: men who, by slightly superior education, have long been leaders in their isolated world. These people, of course, have as much to lose by integration as the most conservative white man. They band together with white leaders to keep segregation alive...
...teenagers." Said she: "I know many of you mothers are appalled by the drinking that's going on among teenagers. Please, please tell them that to be sophisticated, to show that you've been places, you don't have to drink. The girl that does will lose her figure, face and looks. Mr. Kennedy never drank before making an important business decision. We were very fortunate in our family. My husband promised each of our children $1,000 if they did not smoke or drink until they were 21. The oldest boys, Joe Jr. and Jack, went...
...revolt began shortly after midnight when mutineers stormed the Ankara radio station and broadcast a declaration that the "Revolutionary Headquarters of the Armed Forces" was taking over the country. Roused from their sleep, loyal army troops raced to the scene, regaining control of the microphones briefly, only to lose it once again to the insurgents. The claims and counterclaims going out over the air waves were all very confusing to the folks tuned in at home. In the distance, they could also hear the rumble of tanks manned by rebel cadets, and the whoosh of government air force...
...chemistry department will lose eight of its 13 professors, including the chairman. He joins two other 17-year veterans, the chairman of the classics and philosophy departments. Two of the four fulltime classicists are leaving. Three of the six art teachers are also leaving-one involuntarily. G. Ray Kerciu, the assistant art professor who was arrested for exhibiting his allegedly "obscene" riot paintings (TIME, April 19), is simply not being asked back, even though the charges were later dropped, and his lack of tenure gives him no recourse...
...trade associations and small shopkeepers are vociferously fighting against the stamps. Says a spokesman for the 12,000-store Multiple Grocers Association: "We have had the advantage of seeing what happened with stamps in the U.S. You have an initial competitive advantage; then your rivals have stamps and you lose the advantage. But you're stuck with the stamps." They haven't seen anything yet. The U.S.'s MacDonald Stamp Co. (Plaid Stamps) is exploring the British market, and giant Sperry & Hutchinson (Green Stamps) will launch an assault this summer. More immediately. Great Universal Stores...