Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Soft Talk. Since Khrushchev had little to lose by negotiation under such terms, he might well decide to negotiate. At week's end Foreign Minister Gromyko asked for a conference with the President, was granted time for this Monday. Kennedy, meanwhile, got in touch with Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, in the West Indies en route to the U.S., and the two met on Sunday in Key West...
...Loses Legs. Some style books draw exquisitely fine beads on proper form. The Salt Lake City Tribune explains the distinction between three cupfuls of sugar and three cups full of sugar, and softly suggests the typographical peril in such words as "shot, suit, short, shift, skit, etc." The Detroit News confidently calls a girl a girl until she reaches 21, when she becomes a woman; at 17 a boy becomes a youth, at 21 a man. "Beware of such relative descriptions as elderly, aged or old," says the Washington Post and Times Herald. "Few men under 70 would appreciate those...
...Night baseball cuts a lot of points off the average. They can't light up the skies or the trees or buildings in the background. You lose your sense of depth perception. Everything's working against the hitter now. Even the gloves. They're bigger and better made. Fielders make plays every day you wouldn't see once in a season a few years back...
When people lose jobs because their skills become obsolete, all economists can say is "these people should never have been born." This, she claimed, is hardly a very helpful explanation...
...prowls Rome. At Fiumicino Airport last week, after a visit with her three Rossellini offspring, Ingrid Bergman suddenly wheeled on her preying pursuers, snapped, "I am not a rare animal," later tearfully told a reporter, "Help me go away and find a quiet place, because otherwise I'll lose my mind." Laying over briefly at the same terminal, Katharine Hepburn was equally distraught. Wearing a safari garb that turned out to be appropriate for the jungle war that en sued, she streaked through the airport, hid out in a washroom, was finally foiled only after ducking into a plane...