Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even if Kennedy should lose the convention he can still enter the September primary and would probably do so. The Kennedys, in the past, have proven to be a virtually unbeatable force and it is doubtful that the family would chance the embarrassment of defeat on home grounds without the assurance that victory is very much within the realm of probability...
...mind. Western farmers, grateful to the Tories for selling of $228 million in surplus grain to Red China, are in a better mood now than they are apt to be after the summer's expected drought. And by fall, if Britain joins the European Common Market, Canada may lose its low Commonwealth tariffs on its $900 mil lion exports to Britain, bringing trouble to Canadian export industries...
...Deal.* As a Labor Department lawyer, Blueblood Democrat Eliot helped arbitrate the San Francisco general strike in 1934. As general counsel of the Social Security Board, he helped defend the Social Security Act before the Supreme Court. At 33, he was elected to Congress-only to lose after one term to Boston's James Michael Curley...
...most of it came from nuclear fusion, which creates little fallout. Only about 25 megatons came from nuclear fission of uranium or plutonium, and since many of the Russian tests were exploded at high altitudes, their dangerous fission products will presumably stay aloft for longer periods of time and lose more of their activity by natural decay before they come down...
Banking on the Floor. Born the second son of a Russian Orthodox missionary in Jerusalem, Bedas began his banking career at 16 as a messenger boy. By 1948, he had shouldered his way up to head the Arab Bank of the Middle East, only to lose all his capital when he fled Israel as a refugee. Rounding up $4,000, he opened a currency exchange office in two dingy fourth-floor rooms in Beirut. With typical flourish, he named the operation "International Traders." Says he: "We had to have a name out of all proportion to our size to impress...