Word: loser
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity, loser of its last two games after winning three in a row, will meet a tall, but young Bowdoin five in its first game. Should they get by the Polar Bears, the team will face the winner of the Colby-Middlebury game the next day. Middlebury has already beaten the varsity this year, winning a tight 50-46 contest...
...When a promising young business executive decides that he won't try for the $64,000 question, when he decides that he isn't interested in becoming production manager because the increased net just isn't worth the extra effort and strain, then everyone is the loser...
...that nomination almost assures election, Democrats, afraid of backing a loser, should throw even more support to the leading contender, Stevenson, he said...
...Felix is a precocious boy. At an early age he has learned to fake fits and migraine symptoms-he can even make his fingernails turn blue-in order to stay home from school. Soon he is able to forge signatures with the technical virtuosity of a three-time loser. He steals, too, but theft is an esthetic experience to him. And when it comes to sex (as it does soon, with the housemaid), he does not mind admitting that "my gifts for the pleasures of love bordered on the miraculous...
...have a prayer against Dwight Eisenhower? For his answers, De Sapio can only draw on his rugged New York political schooling. In discussing the national situation, he likes to dwell on his experiences with Republican Tom Dewey (De Sapio insists that Dewey, not Candidate Irving Ives, was the real loser in the 1954 gubernatorial election...