Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What in the history of this country did Adlai Stevenson do, other than criticize and lose elections...
...meeting of the Republican National Committee next day, Nixon called upon Republicans to discuss national issues, but to "disagree on them without being disagreeable." The Republican Party "will win if we're united,'' he said. "We'll lose if we are divided." The committeemen and state chairmen gave him a standing ovation. At that point it seemed that Nelson Rockefeller's firecracker, having made everybody jump, had left not a tremor behind...
...work of late 19th-century "realism." Whatever their genre, all three are some times elaborately, sometimes delicately stylized, even to their high-pitched speech; far from merely accepting stage artifices, they glory in them and glorify them. The result is often a triumph of manner. The actor does not lose himself in the part; he arrays himself in it. Sometimes the action approaches the formal repose of sculpture, at other times the formal movement of ballet. Perhaps the Kabuki method itself tends toward theatrical rather than dramatic rewards...
Since 1956, 13 Grand Prix drivers have been killed, and Moss himself admits to fear: "In a race, it's a matter of inches. If you overdo it, you lose control of the car. Once you know you have lost control -that the car can do what it wants and not what you want it to do-it's a very frightening situation." But it is that sort of danger that Moss loves best. "Driving a racing car," he says, "is something I think I'll enjoy for as long as I live." Then he adds: "However...
...Seattle Symphony in the premiere of a piano concerto by Leon Kirchner, Conductor Milton Katims will stop at' the Orpheum movie theater. There, before an audience of symphony patrons, he will engage the soloist of the evening, Pianist Leon Fleisher, in a three-game pingpong match. Katims may lose, for Fleisher has a widely feared forehand slam, but he expects to collect about $10,000 from spectators for the symphony's sustaining fund...