Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surprised the U.S.; it awakened Australia. As the Japanese overran Singapore and invaded New Guinea,- and even bombed Darwin in Australia's own Northern Territory, Australians abruptly lost their sense of secure remoteness. Britain, fighting for its life, was in no position to help -and was reluctant to lose the battle-hardened Australian troops in the Middle East. "Without any inhibitions of any kind," wrote Prime Minister Curtin in January 1941, "I make it quite clear that Australia looks to America, free of any pangs as to our traditional links or kinship with the United Kingdom...
...Stuart Symington or-maybe-Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey could beat Richard Nixon next November. Texas' Lyndon Johnson "doesn't want to win as badly as many Democrats." In a convention crisis, Butler hinted, Johnson might throw his support to the least-promising candidate, in order to lose the election and enhance his own position as Senate leader in a Nixon Administration...
...gored and fishermen drowned, so news papermen get drunk). Despite her virtues Tiamat takes a mistress. Since this is a fable of corruption, his enraged father-in-law offers him two choices : quit the paper, or incur certain moral leprosy by becoming a columnist. The scapegrace journalist chooses to lose his soul, and the author to misplace both humor and control of his figures of speech. "While it dipped its pen in its readers' blood." he preaches, "the newspaper industry mumbled on about its sacred right, freedom of the press, and then gutted that right." To Condon fans...
...relatively unknown opponent, had taken his defeat hard in 1925. In order to find a precedent for a Prime Minister's seeking the job while in office, historians had to go all the way back to George III's hapless Lord North, whose other distinction was to lose the American colonies...
There is no time to lose, said the Rockefeller Institute's famed Microbiologist Rene Dubos. Reason: the nation's general health and health care were never better, and skillful use of drug combinations has kept resistant tubercle bacilli down to manageable proportions. But delay could be fatal, by giving time for resistant strains to get out of hand. "In 20 years," said Dr. Dubos, "it will be too late. It's now or never...