Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...present Cabinet position-by his effective 1960 preconvention work for Kennedy in the Southwest. No sooner had he taken over his Cabinet office than he allowed as how Democratic Congressmen had better go along with the Kennedy Administration's effort to liberalize the House Rules Committee or lose their bite at the Interior Department's pork-barrel appropriations; this sort of talk annoyed all kinds of Congressmen. Next, Udall sent out a letter to oil and gas men, many of whom were doing business with the Interior Department, dunning them for contributions to a Democratic fundraising dinner...
...only big surprise of the meet came in the 220 yard freestyle, where Bill Zentgraf turned in his best performance of the season only to lose to Army sophomore Bill Landgraf. Landgraf built up a one-stroke lead which Zentgraf could not regain, to win the race...
Last year, coach Bill McCurdy freely predicted that his team was going to lose the Holy Cross meet. It was kind of a shame. When the clash with the mighty Crusaders rolled around, the varsity sweated and strained and just did manage to eke out en 82-27 victory...
THERE is much destructiveness in Tropic, but Miller manages to avoid the tediousness and peevishness which gives so much of modern literature an unsavory reputation. The wealth of his language is immense, and beneath it, one hears a tone of voice that is much too positive to ever lose itself in the squalor and pain it deals with. Miller would destroy modern culture, yes; but he is in control of the destruction, and not vice versa. The images of cancer, of decay, that run through the book convey the point very well. The world is falling apart, getting even worse...
...Cuba or Laos, at least they can fight the ones they think they see around them. "Don't worry about the atomic bombs or H-bombs," says former FBI Counterspy Matthew Cvetic, a longtime speaker on the anti-Communist circuit. "It's right here we'll lose the fight...