Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are several holdovers of quality. The New York Drama Critics Circle best foreign play prizewinner, A Man for All Seasons, probes the mind, heart and faith of Sir Thomas More, who chose to lose his life rather than his soul. Emlyn Williams portrays the hero-martyr. A Thousand Clowns, freshly and resourcefully comic, stars Jason Robards Jr. as a man who tries to grope his way out of group-think toward the good life. Barbara Bel Geddes delivers Jean Kerr's subcutaneous witticisms with flair in long-running Mary, Mary...
...segregationist, but, to use an analogy, I like to see a team that's sure to win the pennant lose at least one ball game...
ITHACA, N.Y., Oct. 6--It's pretty dressing to travel 350 miles and lose. specially if the game happens to be Ivy opener and you're rated one of top teams in the League...
...sailing. In their first attempt at building a 12-meter yacht, they designed a boat that in some ways was faster than the U.S.'s best. With out much experience, either in the class or in U.S. waters, Sturrock sailed her well enough to win one race, lose another by the barest of 26-sec. margins. As Sturrock said: "The best bloke won." But Newport had cheers enough for everyone, and as the Australians prepared to take Gretel home for more practice, they left little doubt that they would be back...
...view of the risks they take, factors lose remarkably little through bad debts: their loss rate is only about one-twelfth of 1% on volume-a rate that compares favorably with the losses sustained by banks. Competition holds down factors' charges to around 1% to 2% of the value of the accounts they factor. For higher earnings, factors look to increased volume. Their fondest hope is that President Kennedy's new trade expansion bill will spur new interest in European sales among small and medium-sized U.S. companies. Already factors are planning overseas operations to handle accounts...