Word: loser
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Each day 1,309,377 Americans receive hospital treatment, 584,455 in mental hospitals (the load was 352,279 twenty years ago). Among major diseases, the biggest gainer is polio (57,879 cases v. 1947's low 10,827); the biggest loser is syphilis (165.853 cases v. 1946's peak...
...going to have when the game's over, that kind of thing. But one thing Rusty Russell, my old high-school coach, used to say always stuck in my book. He used to say, 'There's no such thing in my book as a good loser.' It's the kinda feeling you got to have to be a winner. It's kinda like the New York Yankees. Those guys win about 30% of their games because they got those pinstripe suits on. It's habit-forming, that winning or losing. The Lions have...
...additional communications equipment and ground facilities. But on pioneering flights, SAS pilots have found the route better flying than the often stormy Atlantic. SAS frankly admits that its new route is a gamble, is well aware that U.S. lines have shied away from it as a money loser. SAS hopes, however, to pick up enough traffic from the West Coast to fill a minimum 22 of its 32 seats, the break-even point...
...adroit maneuvering, Evatt managed to postpone the showdown until this week. But whether the vote went for or against Dr. Evatt, the chief loser would be the Labor Party as a whole. Said a well-pleased Cabinet minister of the Liberal government: "We've never been so well in the saddle in 30 years...
Word sifted through the Bamboo Curtain that France's General Christian de Castries, gallant loser of the siege of Dienbienphu, was being "well treated" in a Viet Minh prison camp...