Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...present. Six years of Pathet Lao insurrection had kept the countryside in turmoil, and had thus made Laos a corridor through which North Viet Nam moved men and supplies to support its guerrillas operating in South Viet Nam. This was a stake that the Communists were not prepared to lose. The Russian news agency Tass warned darkly that U.S. "intervention" could lead to "a second Korea." With the Russians supplying one side and the U.S. the other, the possibility was real enough for the U.S. State Department to express "serious concern" about the continuing Russian airdrops of supplies...
Said the hospital chaplain: "This is a devil of a thing. When you do everything -everything-and you lose...
...sales during the trial period would cost the company $2.8 million; a 50% increase would cost it $18.7 million. The first Wall Street reaction was one of suspicion. By week's end A.M.C. stock was off one point. What the sellers failed to realize is that Romney cannot lose. He pays nothing if sales, down slightly in December from November, do not increase at least 10%. But if his gimmick makes them rise above that, the profit on the extra cars sold will more than make up the rebates...
Interjected Pete Thomas: "Look, Willy, what do you say when a guy says you're punk? That's what you're askin' them to do-give in, lose all dignity, all manhood, make punks out of them." That somehow hit home. Minutes later the Sen ators moved into another room to caucus about continuing the feud. When they returned, one shrugged...
Most of those satisfied with the program felt that it had fulfilled their expectations well. The flexibility of the program, expressed by a student who said he had accepted because, "I had everything to gain and nothing to lose," was also, however, the greatest weakness for many. There were frequent complaints that guidance was inadequate and that most students did not know how to cope with the options presented...