Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...workers after 13 U.S. firms canceled orders for rubber slippers. Two U.S. associations of ceramic importers shot off angry letters to Japan protesting the treatment of Eisenhower. And Elmer Proctor, director of Metasco, the importing division of big (85 department stores) Allied Stores, asked: "Does Japan want to lose its most important customer and a good friend...
...trees lose their flowers. Their leaves fall. Their bare branches stretch up to the sky begging for water . . . The sun goes on, day after day, from east to west, scorching relentlessly. The earth cracks up and deep fissures open their gaping mouths; but there is no water-only the shimmering haze at noon making mirage lakes of quicksilver . . . The sun makes an ally of the breeze. It heats the air till it becomes the loo and then sends it on its errand. Even in the intense heat, the loo's warm caresses are sensuous and pleasant. It brings...
Kono virtually guarantees the U.S. a gold medal. Undefeated in world championship competition since 1952, he has broken some 30 world records. Even more unusual, Kono seems able to gain or lose weight at will and still lick the planet. In the Olympics he won the 148-lb. class in 1952, the 181-lb. class in 1956. In non-Olympic competition, he set a world record in the igS-lb. class...
Each week on TV the miracle happened live: Regimen "volunteers" (sample pay: $5,500) weighed in to let viewers check on their weight loss "without special dieting." Predictably, they had lost-and Regimen sales soared, despite an FTC warning two years ago that "those taking (Regimen) cannot lose weight without dieting," and the seizure last November by New York County District Attorney Frank Hogan of Regimen ads and financial records...
...Medicine Man John Andre (real name: John Andreadis). Also cited was Regimen's advertising agency, Kastor, Hilton, Chesley, Clifford & Atherton, Inc. District Attorney Hogan charged that, unknown to the public, four of-the TV performers were on rigid diets, that many took dehydration drugs and medical treatments to lose weight quickly, and that at least one required treatment for malnutrition at the end of the course...