Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second consecutive week the Crimson effectively concelled its own solid individual performances with fumbles, penalties, and shoddy execution. Three times they marched the length of the field only to lose the ball on downs inside the Dartmouth 20-yard line...
...signed the protocol at the police station, in which it was stated that I had committed a crime under Article 190. "You fool," said the policeman, "if you had kept your mouth shut, you could have lived peacefully." He had no doubt that I was doomed to lose my liberty. Well, perhaps he is right and I am a fool...
...U.F.T. took newspaper ads to claim that its fight was really against "vigilantism, hate propaganda and terror in the schools." No doubt extremists in Ocean Hill had recklessly and needlessly inflamed the situation. No doubt the union had a point when it argued that its members stood to lose painfully gained job security if local committees were totally free to hire and fire teachers. Yet many New Yorkers were outraged by Shanker's own extremist rhetoric and by his arrogance in tying up the entire 1,100,000-pupil system over a dispute at one school...
...book is filled with comic scenes, acute insights and memorable characters -among them a salesman named Mr. Blue, who will perform 50 push-ups at the drop of a hint. The narrative ramblings, like a drunk's broken-field running, occasionally lose the reader in a muddiness of form. But they are part of the mad scramble that eventually makes Exley the winner his protagonist was so desperate...
...Shintron Company gave some suggestions for exemplary graffiti: "Wallace, Stand Fast--You Have Nothing to Lose But Your Sheet"; "Draft Students--Leave Beer Alone"; "Richard Nixon Sold This Used...