Word: losely
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According to Massachusetts law, the question of proportional representation cannot be placed on the ballot again for four years. Several opponents of PR have hinted that if they lose this election they will attempt to get the law changed at the next session of the State Legislature...
...terms of total military strength," said Kennedy, "the U.S. would not trade places with any nation on earth. We have taken major steps in the past year to maintain our lead-and we do not propose to lose it." Because the Soviet tests might produce improved nuclear weapons for the Soviet Union, the U.S. will "proceed in developing nuclear weapons to maintain this superior capability. No nuclear tests in the atmosphere will be undertaken, as the Soviet Union has done, for so-called psychological or political reasons. But should tests be deemed necessary to maintain our responsibilities for free-world...
Unequvocal membership means total economic integration, and this raises questions of corresponding political integration. Extremist Tories cry that Britain will lose its economic, hence political, hence cultural sovereignty; extremist Labourites fear they will never have a chance to try state Socialism. Since the E.E.C. has decided to abandon its founders' hope for a tight European federation, niether protest is really valid, but there is a strange legitimacy to more moderate British desires. Mr. Macmillan wants, ideally, a loose federation with both Europe and the Commonwealth, for he understandably cannot bear to let the Commonwealth go. It is more than...
Beat Princeton, lose to Yale. Beat Yale, lose to Princeton. It's a trap. The varsity cross country team, a solid favorite in the Big Three meet for the first time in years, went down to a resounding defeat before Princeton yesterday at Franklin Park. And though the Crimson beat Yale at long last, it was hardly the kind of thing you'd want to tell your grandchildren about...
...fight that American Weekly could only lose. Unnoticed by Hearst, the U.S. newspaper reader had crawled out of the jungle and was demanding more edifying fare than the Weekly supplied. By comparison, the new supplements seemed positively intellectual, and as the Weekly declined, they thrived. The Weekly's descent was greased by Hearst's stubborn insistence on staying first at any cost. "It was an obsession," says Arthur H. Motley, 61, publisher of the supplement Parade...