Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Leave a crisis unanswered for a while," wrote Columnist George Dixon after President Eisenhower's news conference last week, "and it tends to lose its importance -just like your mail." From the U-2 to the summit collapse to the Tokyo riots to Cuba's deepening Red hue, headline had piled upon headline in the eight weeks since Ike's last press conference. But, relaxed and tanned, the President made his way through the backlog of questions as though they were last year's mail...
...foes alike; his fierce socialism demanded instant nationalization of industry, instant disarmament, instant betterment for workers and the poor. Yet in Nye, Socialism seemed locked in battle with a vaunting personal ambition. Time and again he reached the brink of power in his party and his country, only to lose the prize by rash behavior that made even his fellow Socialists feel safer in the hands of a competent but unexciting eminence like Clement Attlee...
...backers of the Newport Jazz Festival bawled with him. When the biggest jazz bash in the country was closed down in the wake of drunken rioting, with 12,000 college students finally tamed by the state police, National Guard and the U.S. Marines, the backers figured to lose $150,000 in advance ticket sales, not to mention the festival's glamorous name...
...meditate on the Buddha in the midst of passing geishas? That is why we sought mountain solitude. But now girls are to be allowed on our mountain, presumably with their boy friends. If one of my priests doing a cliff exercise happens to see a young couple, he may lose his balance and be killed." The abbot may have been thinking of a line popular with the mountain priests: "Woman is the root of disaster that even 500 reincarnations cannot absolve...
Permanent Cut. Cuba will lose $65 million on the sugar slash this year, plus another $25 million for extra allotments that would have been due her. Congress is expected to revamp the entire Sugar Act when it returns in August, may cut Cuba out of the quota system permanently. In any case, after allotting additional quotas to friendly nations and to U.S. farmers, the U.S. will not lightly return them to Cuba. U.S. beet farmers particularly stand to benefit by the cut. Their costs have long been above foreign producers' (the quota system is partly to protect them from...