Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that at least once ranges beyond the scope of the unabridged dictionary (favrile) but the almost never settles back upon the easy couch of cliche. His most evident fault lies elsewhere--in the directions of slickness and hyperfacility. Too often, the glitter of his words made me stop and lose sight of the whole poem while I luxuriated in a single phrase or image like "scouring chimneys' ledges' edges,/ scuffling sludge of leafmulch thickly." (from Winter Emergent...
...Lose Friends. At Ohio State, Ferguson is a C student in physical education. A quiet, reserved senior, he has lived off campus since his recent unpublicized marriage, has few pastimes other than roller skating and bid whist. Aware of the fame that only football could have brought him, he says: "Football has helped my life tremendously...
...megaton bomb of this kind would contaminate 200,000 square miles (four times the area of New York State) so heavily that even people in basement shelters would surely die. But since the half life of radioactive sodium 24 is only 15 hours, the bomb's products would lose much of their punch before the wind could carry them around the earth. Thus, a sodium-salted bomb would not be a true Doomsday Machine...
Pain into Pleasantry. Everywhere the letters bear Walpole's signature as well as his century's. "The first step toward being in fashion is to lose an eye or a tooth-not that I complain-it is charming to totter into vogue," could only beWalpole. Thus he turns pain into pleasantry, parliamentary battles into hair-pulling matches, the universe itself into a ballroom. With just as unillusioned a view, Horace's father became the most successful of British administrators. The father was as philistine as Horace could be exquisite, but they were not too unlike -a cynical...
...decorated it with all kinds of French furniture, tapestries and bric-a-brac. The Washington word was that Perle had been asking $200,000. The Johnsons paid something closer to $160,000, and Englished its name to The Elms. "Every time somebody calls it a château, I lose 50,000 votes back in Texas," sighed Lyndon...