Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seats to U.P. candidates pledged to rub them out, the Progressives pulled in 69,000 votes (20,000 more than anticipated) from defecting moderates fed up with the lack of racial alternatives between the two major parties. In Johannesburg and Durban, the Progressives polled heavily, winning one seat and losing four others by fewer than 1,000 votes. Set upon by both the Nationalists and the Progressives, the U.P. now has only a handful of safe seats in the Assembly, may well lose its position as the major opposition party to the Progressives in the next election...
...rule, rose from speaker of the first Philippine Assembly to vice president of the Commonwealth, succeeded to the presidency of the Philippine government-in-exile when fiery Manuel Quezon died in 1944. returned home over the beaches of Leyte and directed the reconstruction of his nation, only to lose the 1946 presidential election to Manuel Roxas ten weeks before independence finally came...
...Loeb is to be used in can no longer be worshipped. Harvard drama must lose its awe of the Loeb's physical facilities and its accompanying fear of using them to produce anything amateurish. It costs several hundred dollars a day just to keep the Loeb open. It is about time that Harvard got its money's worth...
Should Kirkland pull off a somewhat improbable stunt and defeat Eliot, the three teams could easily be locked in a tie. But Eliot is not likely to lose...
...venerable Portfolio hopes to lose all five remaining games this term, and thinks the chances are excellent. "I'll admit that that round out scared me--the score was much too close, and I'm afraid I got a bit abusive on the P.A.; but as for the rest, it's gonna be lose, lose, lose--right across the board. Why," he reflected gravely, "my guess is we don't score once in any of them...