Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...addition to room for risk, says Goodman, a young man needs faith. He must be able to work hard, to lose himself in his work because the community supports him. But this sort of faith (in vocation) is today rare, and most teenagers become either "early-resigned" (those who, though qualified for the rat race, balk at submitting to it) or "early-fatalistic" (those who, underprivileged, never get a chance to get into the rat race...
...Harvard, the quitting of halfbacks John Damis and John Shipman may or may not have been the first signs of a growing unrest. But when a team with such obviously fine material begins to lose and look bad in the process, something is very, very wrong...
This November, in other words, there will be two Labour parties in Westminster. Gaitskell has two choices: to fight and fight and fight again for constitutional revision, or to see his party lose in so many General Elections that disgust will force him to join the Liberal Party which he now so much dislikes...
...cities Thompson has encountered stiff, if subtle, resistance from the organization bosses, who fear that they may lose control of their districts if thousands of rediscovered Democrats suddenly outnumber faithful machine supporters. In New York, the reformers complain that Tammany workers will not walk up more than one flight of stairs to seek out new voters. But despite the bosses' roadblocks, Thompson's raiders have done a good job. Some 140,000 new Spanish-speaking Democrats have been registered in California through the Viva Kennedy Clubs. In Baltimore, Thompson's pilot city, 7,000 "unsuspected Democrats" have...
Often, said O'Day, the first ten boats would round a given mark within ten seconds of each other. He remarked that a Bahaman had told him it "was the first place he had ever been where you had to be an expert to lose." It was, he said, a cutthroat competition...