Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there he was alone in the fields with his sorrow. Where are all the people? Behind their own houses [working their private plots]. He had better get tough. It was the middle of August and there was no time to lose. He'd start to comb the upper part of the village, enter each house, and demand to know from each kolkhoznik why he is not working down at the silo. The farm workers' rejoinders, he knew, would be the same as always: 'Let the hay rot. let the peas go to ruin...
...letter dated March 15, the University warned the Health Service that if "a flexible and easy procedure" could not be developed for changing the nature of research, the agency would spend huge sums in "sterile" paperwork and the entire program of NIH research grants might lose its effectiveness. The Public Health Service is NIH's parent organization in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare...
...still an ugly bug. The tower of education's "massive walls and large windowless areas" shone like alabaster in the reproduction. In fact they will be the familiar mottled red, broken most months by bare, scraggly Ivy vines. Before many years in the local air, the red will lose its luster, the mortar will turn dull grey...
...they just run a bunch of mice around a track twelve months a year?" Even a few bettors gripe. Says one: "I don't care what the longer season does to horses. What does it do to humans? They're giving us too much opportunity to lose...
...Giants, champions of the National League, get beaten by their own Tacoma, Wash., farm club? Where else could Pitcher Don Drysdale, who won 25 games last year for the Los Angeles Dodgers, give up six walks, 20 hits and 13 runs, hit one batter, throw a wild pitch, and lose two games in a row? Where else could the Mets split a two-game series with the World Champion New York Yankees, who, by the way, were playing .350 ball with 7 wins, 13 losses? Where indeed? At least, that was the consensus in Las Vegas last week, where oddsmakers...