Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...commanding performance was a surprise since it had had so much trouble in its early games. A promising but inexperienced Yale team pressed the Eagles hard in the opener before allowing three goals in the last period to lose...
...occasionally wonder if Vonnegut's writing will lose its appeal a few ages hence. Certainly life will continue to become even more complex and our minds will want to identify that this is happening to us. But will people drift out of the particular absurdities they now languish in and start speaking in a new idiom different from the one Vonnegut's characters used to speak? And would such an occurrence make the then readers unable to recognize the truth in the writing and hence not laugh? Well, fundamentally I believe that it is the cliches that will never change...
...game went into extra points, but Schienmann finally lost 18-16 to become the first Harvard man to lose an intercollegiate match this year...
...party and by the Democrats' defeat in the November elections. In Arizona, for instance, the Democrats hold no statewide offices (from U.S. Senator down) and are in a minority in both houses of the legislature. "In 1968 the conservatives kept telling us not to upset the applecart--Johnson would lose and we would be defeated on the state level," said Richard Wilks, a Pheonix lawyer who heads the Arizona NDC. "Well, after November, there's just no applecart left." The conservatives are weak in Arizona and are searching for attractive candidates for lower offices, which the new liberals can have...
...grappler to be eliminated, he must lose two matches, which greatly increases the amount of wrestling each individual must do. Some competitors will have as many as six matches, and perhaps more if his weight class is crowded...