Word: losely
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After Commencement '68, many Harvard seniors will lose their 2-S student draft deferements, and the war in Vietnam will scatter them across the nation and the world. Fifty years ago, Commencement had just the opposite effect, serving as the first reunion for the Class of 1918--which had already been scattered by the First World...
Cost of the Contretemps. If the recent surge in market trading continues, the city will lose little if any stock-transfer tax revenue, which has grown from $166 million in fiscal 1967 to $242 million this year. For the Big Board, the cost of the contretemps may be considerable but bearable. Estimates are that the $80 million complex that it scrapped two years ago would cost at least $20 million more today...
...Green Light. Wicker argues that Lyndon Johnson was even more victimized by the "ebullience of power." As a firm believer in "the domino theory" of Communist aggression, Johnson privately vowed two days after Kennedy's death: "I am not going to lose Viet Nam." But as a Southerner who was avid to rise above sectionalism, Johnson had a passion for reflecting the broadest possible national consensus, which lured him into running as a peace candidate and stating publicly in 1964: "We don't want our American boys to do the fighting for Asian boys." According to Wicker, this...
Basing his comments on the entry point of the small bullet--the right mastoid bone behind the ear--as well as the fact that Kennedy is right-handed, Weusenhaupt said that Kennedy might possibly lose only some vision and use of his left...
During the last six days, though, the New Yorker's hopes surged again--even amidst the depression felt by many of his suporters throughout the country. His television confrontation with McCarthy, which Kennedy had shunned for weeks earlier, did not appear to lose him any votes. In fact, his supporters and neutral analysts were surprised at the effectiveness of his generally quick, low-key delivery, particularly next to the urbane, professorial manner of McCarthy...