Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lounged around home at provisional liberty, Andorra's elders informally let drop their intentions: Riberaygua will probably go scot-free. After all. the Riberaygua family had almost gone bankrupt paying back what Ramon had stolen. Anyway, the four-cell jail in the Casa de la Vail might lose its appeal for tourists if it were cluttered up with a prisoner...
Editorial Boldness. Houstonians have learned to expect outspokenness from the Press, a paper that has little to lose and much to gain from piping up. The Press's editorial vigor gains extra measure from the timidity of the Chronicle and the Post...
...kits watch, the mother creeps up, whacks the tail of an enormous cayman, then darts back as it lunges for her. The game continues until the male jaguar takes over, feints past the cayman's jaws, gets a death grip and drowns the reptile. The jaguars lose no battles, although their prey sometimes escapes. Working singly or as a team, they kill a snorting peccary (wild pig) and a huge boa constrictor, and frighten a tapir out of its scant wits...
...same time, however representatives to the UN must not lose then "primary identification" with their own nations: only with "experience and suffering" can they maintain independent dignity. Since life at the UN is "a world in itself," delegates must guard carefully against imbuing the international spirit too deeply...
Dozens of similar cracks, far and near to the downed plane, some made up on the spot, others refashioned from earlier monologues, clustered about the main stem before Sahl decided the time had come. Nathan Hale, he said, regretted that he had only one life to lose for his country. But Powers, ignoring that suicide needle, merely said: "This shatters all my plans...