Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will be other "next times'' for John Kennedy to redeem his reputation as a political leader of potential greatness. Yet if the pattern persists, there will be a clear and present danger that President Kennedy, surrounded as he is by a din of conflicting advisory voices, may lose the confidence necessary to guide the nation through such coming struggles as Berlin...
...brilliant 66 on a sticky wicket for Eton against Harrow. He caught Neville Chamberlain's eye and became his parliamentary private secretary-only to suffer obloquy later for having ridden with Chamberlain through the cheering crowds at Munich. In the 1945 Labor landslide, he even managed to lose his family's "safe" Parliament seat in Lanarkshire. In 1951, he went off to the musty House of Lords after acceding to his father's title and his share of the family's 100,000 acres in Scotland...
...fight so that they will no longer have to stock duplicate sets of tires. Seiberling Rubber Co. has tried to compromise with a combined nylon-rayon tire that, the company insists, has the advantages of both cords and the disadvantages of neither. Ironically, both nylon and rayon may lose out in the end. Experiments by tire-company researchers suggest that Dacron, Fiberglas or steel may eventually prove the most suitable tire cord...
...disastrous Cuban invasion and prepare for the challenge-however it might come-on Berlin. In his report on Vienna, Kennedy was firm and uncompromising in his promise to hold Berlin. But there were fears that the President on occasion relied too strongly on advisers who would rather lose the cold war step by step than risk the nuclear consequences of standing fast. In the aftermath of Vienna, it seemed likely that a time for such risk would come-and that Berlin might be the place...
Doermann says on this subject, "If a boy's family regards cash outflow as what determines college, we lose out...if the family is going solely to dollars, we are hurt in competition." Then Doermann says, "I don't mean to take a moral tone," which seems a bit strange in view of his preceding remarks. But he realizes that the Harvard scholarship scale can be very tough on the middle-income family. "A middle-income job requires a certain standard of living--the money for spending is not great," he concedes. "A considerate kid may have a real problem...