Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...member of the younger generation, I say it's not all right to be second in space, to lose Cuba to Communism, and to appear foolish to the world. What do we have to do, wait to be blown from our rocking chairs...
...aboard ship. A man has to study to keep his rating, study harder to get ahead. This produces an odd personnel problem: a steady drain on savvy chief petty officers as they get commissions. Compared with the Navy as a whole, 30 times more Rickover sailors become officers. "You lose 20% of your people," growled one sub commander last week as he stared at a couple of CPOs hunched over books as well as black coffee. That fails to daunt "the admiral," as he is called without further identification. Says Rickover: "The main thing is that the men have been...
...affirmative team questioned the HUAC's legislative functions and accused it of creating panic and confusion, of causing innocent witnesses to lose their jobs, and of encouraging witch-hunting...
...state might still lose court approval of its option to purchase the line from the New Haven Railroad if the New Haven went bankrupt before legalization of the sale. Formal enactment of the legislation is expected in both houses this morning. The Governor may well sign the bill this afternoon...
...ability did not make a fool of the orchestra, for Senturia kept the lose fabric of the songs very well together. Still, the songs were uneven due to both technical and aesthetic failings. Too often a phrase played with nuance would give way to harsh tone, an abrupt entrance or an uncomfortable "hole," or else a passage competently played would lack lift and fall short of expressiveness...