Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than passing reference to the international problems of the U.S. Cuba might as well have been on another planet. A White House aide explained-at least in part-the strategic thinking: "Medicare, depressed areas, aid to education-these are still the issues that are going to get votes or lose them." Maybe so-and maybe not. In any event, at week's end Kennedy canceled trips into several states, flew back to Washington suffering from a cold accompanied by a slight fever. His illness, plus the fact that he is bypassing foreign policy while on the stump...
Wyoming. The unhappy distinction of being the Democratic Senator most likely to lose his seat to a Republican belongs to J. J. Hickey. The Republican: ex-Governor Milward Simpson. The last time the two met, in 1958, Hickey beat Simpson. But when Republican Senator-elect Keith Thompson died in late 1960, Hickey resigned the governorship and turned the chair over to Secretary of State Jack Gage, who thereupon appointed Hickey to replace Thompson. Hickey's ploy stirred up a lot of voter discontent. Last week, just after he returned from Washington to get his campaign going, Hickey suffered...
Wisconsin. So close is the race between Senator Alexander Wiley and ex-Governor Gaylord Nelson that Nelson predicts he will win or lose by one per cent...
Early this year, possibly to relax from the Algerian crisis and other serious matters, Charles de Gaulle gave Monaco six months to reform its tax laws or lose its special status (though Monaco is theoretically sovereign, it exists as a privileged protectorate of France, free of customs duties). When the ultimatum expired fortnight ago, Paris sent customs agents to set up barriers at the border that Novelist Colette once described as the frontier of flowers. Mostly, the revenuers darted about in mobile vans and on motorcycles, making nuisances of themselves, which was the idea. "Berlin has its wall of shame...
...most part, winds on Saturday and Sunday were light and shifty from the south. Crimson sailors did not lose a match throughout the regatta and won all but two of the six starts...