Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GREAT AMBITION AVAILS A MAN NOTHING, AND NEITHER SERVES THE NATION NOR THE STATE, IF IT IS NOT WEDDED TO GREATNESS OF CHARACTER AND HUMILITY OF SPIRIT. AGAIN WE QUOTE FROM ST. MATTHEW: 'WHAT DOTH IT PROFIT A MAN IF HE SHALL GAIN THE WHOLE WORLD, AND LOSE HIS SOUL...
...first, it seemed curious that the U.N. did not follow up its plane and mortar bombardment with an all-out strike against the positions of the Katangese in the city. But delay had its purpose. Fact was, the U.N. was gathering strength for an attack that could not lose. The U.N. now had 4.500 men to Tshombe's 2,000. More reinforcements were coming in by air, plus 106-mm. and 75-mm. field pieces, as well as bazookas, jeeps, food and ammunition...
When the time for talk had ended, 5,600,000 voters cast their compulsory ballots (the penalty for not voting is ?2). There was a substantial swing against the Menzies coalition-enough, apparently, to lose him control of the Senate (whose powers are somewhat greater than the mostly ceremonial British House of Lords) but not enough to spell defeat in the House of Representatives, which introduces most key legislation. Once again Menzies will be Prime Minister...
...wrong. But last week in the British journal Nature, Physicist Alastair Ward of Glasgow's Royal College of Science and Technology suggested a possible way to squelch the big explosion and bring the universe back into a steady state of vast but stable dimensions. Colliding light beams may lose some of their energy, says Ward, as photons (particles of light) carom off other photons. The loss of energy might cause a lengthening of wave length, and in light-drenched space such energy-diminishing collisions are highly probable. They could explain the Hubble-Humason red shift...
...from Washington that demanded impossible resistance in high-flown language designed to impress world opinion. Commanders themselves could be dispiritingly callous: MacArthur, arriving safe in Australia as his troops made their last stand in Bataan, declared airily: "That's the way it is in war. You win or lose, live or die-and the difference is just an eyelash." Too often, the difference was between the dedicated professionalism of the samurai and the bumbling optimism of U.S. commanders who maintained until the moment of attack that the Japanese would never be "stupid enough" to attack the mighty Pacific fleet...