Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These journals of opinion-and limited circulation-chronically lose money and depend on well-heeled readers and sympathizers to bail them annually out of the red. They would be hard put to survive even a modest postal rate increase-and the one under consideration is by no means modest. It would, for example, boost the Nation's annual mail bill from...
...usually accused of stopping fights too soon," said the veteran of 19 years and more than 500 fights as a referee. "My first thought is always for the fighter's safety. But this was a championship fight. I believe the champion should get the chance to lose his title on his back, not on his feet." Top Shape. Ringwise observers were more concerned over the fact that New York authorities allowed the fight to start in the first place. Dr. Alexander Schiff of the New York Athletic Commission insisted that "Paret entered the ring in top physical shape...
Barenboim has honed his talents on a wide variety of masters: Bach, Mozart. Schubert. Brahms. Beethoven (by age 14, he knew all 32 of the Beethoven sonatas). He works at the piano only about two hours a day, because "you may lose freshness if you sit all day practicing." sometimes plays the violin to help him understand what the composer has written for the piano and feels that every musician should do some composing (as he does) to give his playing "a quality of understanding." Though he has made six recordings, he does not enjoy listening to them...
...wrote Brown Baby, his best-known song, eleven years ago as an expression of hope for the world inherited by the first of his five children. Then, without learning to read music, he was suddenly composing in earnest, humming his tunes to musician friends who copied them down. "I lose a little that way," he says. "Only music, though. I can type...
...English-language Tiger Standard, "is certain to trigger Hong Kong's worst financial and industrial crisis since the end of the war." At week's end Hong Kong textile mills were planning to cut production 25% to 30%, as many as 40,000 workers stood to lose their jobs, six ships were on the high seas carrying Hong Kong cottons that could be impounded if unloaded in the U.S., and a team of Hong Kong officials nervously set off for Washington to see if anything might be done...