Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SPLENDID PAUPER, by Allen Andrews. The zany life and beguiling times of Moreton Frewen, Winston Churchill's scapegrace uncle, who was born to lose with charm, grace and class...
Chorus of Hoots. Then Louis Harris published an independent national survey showing Rockefeller six points ahead of both Humphrey and McCarthy. Nixon, said Harris, would lose to Humphrey by five points and to McCarthy by eight. The wide discrepancies in the samplings brought a chorus of hoots-especially, of course, from the Nixon camp...
...Johnson's wife Virginia, also a segregationist ("Aren't we all?"), squeezed toward a runoff with the favored candidate, State Representative Marion Crank. Crank, whose campaign is well fueled by utility interests (he is dubbed "the Natural Gas Candidate"), is expected to win the runoff and then lose to Rockefeller, since Arkansas traditionally gives its Governors a second two-year term...
Jesuit Biblical Scholar John McKenzie of Notre Dame believes that "with this pronouncement on birth control, the papacy is going to lose its leadership, which will take 200 years to recover-if ever." Although the downgrading of papal authority would unquestionably lead to a period of confusion within the church, some progressive Catholics contend that dissolution of the papacy as an absolute monarchy would lead to a new and healthier concept of what authority is. The church of the Bible, they argue, was not an authoritarian state but a community of shared decisions, which were not made by the hierarchy...
...whole life becomes permeated by organic chemistry. You lose your sense of humour. You adjust to a cultural vacuum. You dream about organic compounds. You hallucinate laboratories, even blackout. And you save your mind by contem-plating the nondescript charisma of your friends the poisons...