Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Invited or not, the Soviet navy has made itself at home all over the Mediterranean in sharply increasing numbers. Acting as if they had nothing to lose but their anchor chains, the Russians are everywhere now-tailing the U.S. Sixth Fleet, showing the Red Flag from the Dardanelles to Gibraltar, resorting to old-fashioned gunboat diplomacy to keep the big powers baffled and the smaller ones uneasy...
...their head coach, the team has not been noted for consistency. In 1963, it won a conference championship; in 1964, it finished dead last. This season, the Giants have won when they were 14-point underdogs and lost when they were favored by 17 points. They even managed to lose to the Atlanta Falcons-the only game the Falcons have won all fall. But when they are good, the Giants are very good indeed...
...instead, the faculty receives a percentage of each research grant as payment for overhead costs--such as maintaining the labs and offices for the researchers. So when the research contracts are cut, overhead payments drop correspondingly. The overhead costs, however, keep right on going, and the Faculty begins to lose money on its labs instead of breaking even...
Yale will be eating every football team in sight with nowhere to go. It will be a man living too long, someone reaching immortality and then begging to die. Yes, for sure, Yale will want to lose some day, sooner or later, just to make its winning more meaningful. That is what happened to the New York Yankees. In politics I think it is called the liberal death wish...
When pressed for predictions, however, he eventually admits, "I don't think Harvard can beat us. The only way we can lose is to beat ourselves...