Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...continuing success to Republican arrogance, ineptness, lack of leadership. A 1952 split between Eisenhower and Taft factions died hard. General Motors subsequently supported a conservative wing, while the Fords boosted the liberals. Some big contributors from the auto industry slowed their cash flow when the Republicans began to lose elections.*A determined band of G.O.P. greybeards in the state senate gave the party a black name. They fought free polio vaccine for children, opposed spending bills for education and mental health, blocked efforts to revamp the state industrial code, which was written in horse-and-buggy days...
...political meetings because "it was a good way to build up a law practice." One day in 1954, Democratic leaders casually invited him to run for the state senate. "They came around looking for someone with an impeccable background, preferably a war hero. I decided I had nothing to lose." He won, at 29 became the youngest state senator in Michigan history. In Lansing, he rolled up a reputation as an earnest, ever-smiling Democrat who never skipped a session and rarely missed a chance to run an errand or cast a vote for Soapy. Party chiefs rewarded him with...
National magazines have spot-lighted Ravenel as the key man on the Harvard team. "There is a tremendous amount of pressure," Ravenel conceded. "I feel personally responsible when we lose. Coach Yovicson feels I'm the best man to make the team win. If we don't win, it's my fault...
Reporter: Mr. vice-President, one of your local campaign managers has stated that you can't lose because you have had a transaction in which you sold your soul to the Devil. Is this true...
Coach, Bill McCurdy's comeback kids will head into today's Big Three Championships with everything to gain and everything to lose. That's the way it is in the annual Harvard-Yale. Princeton cross country meet--a good performance, or a bad one, obliterates whatever happened earlier in the season...