Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rooming houses, 750 stores sprang up. José Calaça, 52, arrived with a truckload of groceries, unloaded it "in waist-high grass," sold out all his cooking oil immediately, now does a $30,000-a-month business at his Casa Colorado. Says he: "The only way to lose money here is to throw it away." In Free City, construction crews line up at the Romance Barbordello, and venereal disease causes more absenteeism than accidents...
...week he had five winners in three days at Aqueduct-and not one of his rides was beneath the dignity of a man with a family coat of arms. Says Ycaza: "I used to want to win so much that I got excited when anything interfered, and I would lose my temper. Now I still have the same temper, but I know I've got to hold...
...with deliberately planning to have the issue fail. But I do say that if it had planned for failure, it would not have acted much differently." Douglas said that by not selling the bonds, the Treasury "may gleefully think it has won a battle; but they are going to lose the war." He is probably right. Despite the bond flop, there seemed little chance that Congress this session will lift the 4¼% ceiling on bond issues of five years or longer...
Would the U.S. lose any of its present bombs by the treaty...
...that he will "do a Dylan Thomas and blow up with beer." His next literary project is far from juiceless. He hopes "to do something big, rambling, and perhaps rather bawdy. My theory is if you get too priggish and rule out the bawdy, you also lose the tenderness. The two things march together, as they did for the Elizabethans...