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...
...busily exchanging dollars for gold bullion or, as a second-best hedge, buying gold mine stocks. Then, last week, President Kennedy took advantage of the Telstar communications satellite to deliver a stern-faced warning, witnessed by millions of Europeans, that "those who speculate against the dollar are going to lose." Next day, gold shares on the London Stock Exchange nosedived. The day after, the price of bullion on the London gold market followed suit (see chart...
Boccaccio '70 is an erotic Italian film, though scarcely a linear descendant of Boccaccio, 1313-1375. Curvilinear stars Anita Ekberg, Romy Schneider and Sophia Loren lose nothing in translation...
...when reason wins out, you go through the Moment of Truth. For four frightening seconds, you lose every last bit of control over yourself. And, as you speed toward the earth, you stop introspecting...
...skeptical Wall Streeters, the impressive growth achieved by mutual funds during the postwar era was always flawed by the fact that in the Great Bull Market of the 1950s it supposedly took real talent to lose money. Not until this year's seven-month market drop, climaxed by the Blue Monday crash, did the fund managers really get a chance to demonstrate how well they could perform in a shift from a major bull market to a major bear market...