Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dick Nixon was in a tighter bind. While the religion issue could win him inroads in the South and Midwest, it could lose him the big Northern states-and the election -by welding the many Nixon-disposed Catholics of the cities and suburbs into a pro-Kennedy voting bloc. But there were nuances and traps of all kinds, for all sides, in the religion issue, and both Republicans and Democrats knew...
...equivalent of the population of Australia is added to the world. By the year 2000 twice as many people will crowd the globe. Even today nearly a third of the earth's population gets fewer calories than the amount at which British adults and children began to lose weight and working efficiency during the war. To feed the growing mass of humans at a level above subsistence, more than 70 square miles of land should be turned over to agriculture every day. But one-fifth of the earth's surface is too cold to produce crops, one-fifth...
...delayed publication of the news for one week, then buried it on the back pages. Radio and TV stations also went along with the news blackout. "The stores wanted to integrate the lunch counters at the least possible cost,'' explained one Houston editor lamely. "They wanted to lose neither Negro nor white business. They felt that not publicizing the event was their safest course of action...
Strike Insurance. So far, the effects of the strike on industry have been slight. For the Pennsylvania, the strike was costly. The road has already lost $1,814,640 this year, estimates it will lose $2,500,000 a day in passenger and freight revenue because of the shutdown. But one factor softens the blow. It will receive payments estimated by Quill at $600,000 a day from a strike fund set up last year by most of the nation's biggest railroads...
Josiah Hoyt was a pompous, puffed-up railroad executive who managed to lose all his own money, much of his wife's considerable fortune, and sulked for two years before he finally died at the dinner table. He sat there cooling for quite a while before his wife noticed the difference...