Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there is any possible way for a Democrat to lose an election in overwhelmingly Democratic New York City, then bumbling Mayor Robert Wagner, 51, is just the fellow to find it. Last week, announcing his decision to run for a third term, Wagner got off to a predictably stumbling start...
...strong and independent democracy dealing on equal terms. "The Americans tend to be overpowering," says Quadros. "I intend to treat them like a lover-an apache lover." Adds a ranking Brazilian diplomat: "We cannot accept Communism in Cuba permanently. But if we take sides too soon, we lose all influence. We will no longer be able to act effectively to achieve our main objective, which is the same as yours: to restore Cuba to the American community...
...jobs. Please don't waste your time and his insisting." He sold off the city fleet of 40 limousines (São Paulo's morticians snapped them up), even banned coffee breaks-in the coffee capital of the world. "If I give a finger," he said, "I lose an arm." Within a year he had balanced the $55 million budget and started building-highways, water mains, electric lines, clinics. As industry flowed in, Jânio stepped up to the governor's mansion 21 months later...
...Bigger Brush. So that his students would not worry too much about detail and thus lose the vision of the canvas as a whole, he encouraged them to paint with a palette knife in quick, broad strokes. "Swing a bigger brush. Have enthusiasm," he said. With most students he was rarely harsh, but to a few, his Saturday morning critiques must have been a torment. Once a young woman showed him a sentimental painting of two children playing on a beach. "I'm not going to say a thing about this picture." he said icily. Then, exploding, he roared...
...automation," brooded Gagarin as the critical moment approached, "but I had determined the ship's position and was ready to take control with my own hands. But at 10:25 the braking device was turned on by remote control, and it worked perfectly. The Vostok began to lose speed, and shifted from its orbit into a transitional ellipse. Then it began to enter dense layers of the atmosphere. Its outer surface heated rapidly, and through the curtains that covered the portholes I saw the lurid crimson glow of the flames that raged around the ship...