Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nixon may lose the gourmet vote with that one, but it will take something bigger to deny him, or Humphrey for that matter, the nomination. Humphrey has the implied blessing of Lyndon Johnson, which hurts in the ideological competition but helps in controlling the convention apparatus. To nobody's surprise, Nixon last week received Dwight Eisenhower's formal endorsement, which does not mean much in terms of convention procedures but serves to remind regulars where the party's center lies...
McCarthy insists repeatedly that he will battle for political power within the structure of the Democratic Party-even though he might support, but not lead, a fourth-party movement should he lose at the convention. Yet throughout the ranks of the disaffected, among Republicans as well as Democrats, runs the frustrated outcry that the parties' traditional processes for choosing candidates are unrepresentative and unjust (see story opposite page...
...piece requires a back and forth interplay of plucking between the violin and cello. This was done in such a way as to give the listener the impression of a teasing, question and answer conversation between the two instruments. Not once did the piece move slowly or the sound lose its rich quality. In the Allegretto especially, the opening theme was brought back with force and clarity. By the response of the audience, it was clear that the musicians had overcome the handicaps of the heat and Sanders Theatre...
...Chicago port director, who estimates that 750,000 tons of cargo will be diverted to East Coast ports by this week. Such losses could saddle U.S. and Canadian taxpayers with extra burdens. Seaway traffic has lagged so far behind expectations that the $460 million U.S.-Canadian project is still losing money. The seaway has failed to generate enough revenue to retire its bonds on schedule and has even fallen behind on interest payments due the two governments. And every week that the strike continues, the two countries lose $700,000 in lock fees and toll revenues...
...save face. He is reported to have said, just before the escalation in 1965, that when his military and State Department people told him that the Saigon government and army were about to collapse--his reply was, that I refuse to be the first President to lose a war. This seems the only plausble reason why a man who campaigned as a peace candidate would turn around and become a war escalator...