Word: losers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clock ticked away. The struggle wore on. Sometimes the tide of battle would turn against the Vagabond, sometimes for him, but he was a good loser and a generous conqueror. The minute hand dragged by the eleven, nearly exhausted. Only five more minutes and then three more credits, and Vag could take it easy until next week...
Reason for this turnabout: it is safer and easier to ship coffee 1,600 miles from Colombia to New Orleans than 6,000 miles up the Atlantic from Rio. But Brazil will not be the loser. Brazilian bigwigs in São Paulo last week announced that the Good-Neighborly U.S. would buy up all Brazilian coffee not shipped by September's end. That will give Brazil a credit of over $25,000,000 on U.S. banks and give the U.S. a credit of perhaps 2,000,000 bags in Brazilian warehouses...
Every man on the squad had fairly easy sailing, and some pretty medal scores were turned in. Paul Macgowan shot a 73 and Don Davis came up with a 74. Paul Coste was the only loser all day for the Peddie forces, and his defeat prevented a '45 sweep...
...days past on shore duty, I lost consistently at bridge, and at one time became a well-known loser at the University Club in Washington (a den of wolves ever on the alert for new lambs). Last night my partner held 13 spades. The circumstances were a bit unusual...
...World War I the Serbs gained a nine-month breather because German and Austrian troops were afraid to attack lest they be swamped by the typhus epidemic in Serbia. Russia was the highest loser, with 10,000,000 cases, of which 2,000,000 were fatal. With the same fear and figures in mind, the German Army was not sure last week which it feared most, the Russian before or the louse behind...