Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...showdown came last month, when Haney and Head Astronaut Deke Slayton collided over whether or not the press could witness a lunar-landing practice session. Slayton won, and four days later NASA's chief public affairs officer, Julian Scheer, gave Haney the news: he was to lose his voice job and accept a special post out of harm's way in Washington. Haney flatly refused the new job, describing the proposed move "like being kicked out of the game on the two-yard line after coming 98 yards down the field." Scheer quickly accepted his resignation...
...Lockheed could suffer enormous losses if Congress forces a cutback in orders. So far, the company has firm orders for 81 of the C-5A's. Even if the full 120-plane run is completed, Lockheed stands to lose $285 million, according to Air Force estimates made public last week. Those estimates purposely tend to downplay the suspicions raised by C-5A foes, who had suggested that the Pentagon and Lockheed had been conspiring to ensure that the company came out of the contract with an ample profit. In any case, Lockheed disagrees with the Air Force loss figures...
...deconversion will proceed at different rates in the different Houses, since some are more crowded than others. Watson has not said recently which Houses would lose the most students through deconversion, but last Fall his office reported that Lowell was one of the most crowded Houses and the Winthrop was relatively uncrowded...
...sort of problems that have plagued New Mexico, eleven of the 50 states have never joined the Medicaid program. At least four of them -Virginia, New Jersey, Tennessee and North Carolina-are fairly certain to, sign up by the Jan. 1, 1970 deadline; after that date, nonmembers stand to lose federal funds that support alternative programs for the medically indigent. Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana and Mississippi are hoping that the deadline will be extended, but are not expected to join Medicaid before Jan. 1 in any case. Two states have special problems: Alaska, which would have to take over from...
...Humbert's sad obsession with twelve-year-old Dolores Haze went off in the U.S. of the late '50s like a shot in church. At first, U.S. publishers were afraid to touch it. Vera was afraid Nabokov might lose his job at Cornell if they did. When it finally came out, reviewers, not yet used to such material in "serious literature," flew into rages of indignation and feigned boredom. New York Times Critic Orville Prescott, in particular, earned a gargoyle's niche in literary history by exclaiming, "Dull, dull, dull." But Lolita in due course was recognized as the masterpiece...