Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Their Senate future appears brightest. They do not expect to lose any seats, and may even pick up a couple. Their highest hopes are in South Dakota, where G.O.P. Incumbent Joseph Bottum is challenged by former Food-for-Peace Director George McGovern, and in Wisconsin, where aging Republican Alexander Wiley is up against retiring Governor Gaylord Nelson...
...proud Bam-bas-Quincy family, whose wealth dominates the island. Finally, Ben Smith sees what Author Ellin's cluttered symbolism has been thundering about all along: U.S. commerce and Santo Stefano cruelty are all of a piece. The self-control demanded of the self-hanged men-who lose the contest if they begin to twitch and jiggle in the noose too soon-is precisely the quiescence Seaways demands of him against the hope of prospering in the company. O'Harragh has even made a secret bargain with Bambas-Quincy to marry off his psychotic daughter to unwitting...
...astrology has not always had a good name to lose-and for good measure the investigators decided to investigate the astrologers as well...
...college graduates to join parish or church organizations; the flight from Catholic higher education of many young Catholic scholars; the transference of the zeal of many apostolic Catholics from Church to secular organizations; the desire of innumerable Catholics to detach themselves from any cultural attachment to the Church, to lose themselves in a sheltering, pluralistic society." Callahan thinks that the frustration of lay hopes could lead to anticlericalism, but sees a more immediate danger in the dissipation of the contemporary layman's eagerness to serve. "The whole lay apostolate," Callahan warns, "could simply wither away to a feeble, insignificant...
...stocks at rock-bottom prices to help out the U.S. steelmakers, who are the prime users of tin (for cans). Equally persistent are contrary rumors that the U.S. will set a high price because it paid relatively high prices for the stockpiled tin and does not want to lose money. The U.S. has another good reason to keep prices up: tin-producing nations (except Malaya) are among the biggest recipients of foreign aid, and a drop in their incomes would inspire demands for more...