Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ambitious urban renewal program, a start on expressways, a successful $110 million bond issue for programs ranging from new street lights to a planetarium, an improved salary schedule for city officials-and, importantly, a happy way of rallying businessmen and newspapers to his causes. Conceding that Lindenbusch stood to lose by at least 25,000 votes-a margin they hoped would narrow as the G.O.P. gained momentum in the years ahead-the Republicans brought in some outside political muscle. Arizona's Barry Goldwater helped kick off Lindenbusch's campaign. Into St. Louis came Jack Stiles, who directed...
...confusing situation," said Krause last week, "my instructions were to act with diplomacy. Birch made the Communist lieutenant lose face before his own men. Militarily, John Birch brought about his own death...
...Sunday evening they recite poems?from Milton to Hopkins?that they have learned during the week; on other nights they play chess and Monopoly with their father, and hold word contests with their mother. She has retired from "therapy games," and is planning a casual piece on how to lose quickly at checkers...
...Inner Six," Finland was eager to join and make it eight. President Kekkonen, wary of riling the Russians, at first refused to broach the subject to Moscow. Only when the Outer Seven put through the first mutual 20% tariff reductions and Finnish lumber and paper exporters began to lose sales to Swedish and Norwegian competition did Kekkonen speak up. Khrushchev came to Kekkonen's 60th birthday celebration last September, shared a private sauna with the Finnish President, emerged to give his grudging consent for Finland to become a qualified member of EFTA...
...particles shooting through space," and the spiky mesh shown in color is his conception of the "track of these particles." Each wire had to be pulled separately through molten brass to give it a rough-textured coat. As wire after wire was welded into place, each tended to lose its identity. "The line," says Bertoia, "finally disappears and becomes a diffusion." In a sense, the sculpture has no beginning and no end. Though the particle tracks shoot off in all directions, the effect is not of chaos but of limitlessness...