Word: losers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...classmates who tried their tired muscles on softball were beaten by their college-age sons, but one loser consoled the team by saying that the old men did not have to buy drinks for the losers, because everything was gratis at the Essex...
...horn not only on the legislation but on his archenemy, A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany. There, before a surprisingly thin crowd of Teamster members, Hoffa called Meany a "traitor" for supporting the Kennedy bill, cockily challenged him to a Hoffa-Meany vote of confidence throughout organized labor with the loser to resign from office...
...dance show last October.) The catalogue of categories seemed endless. On and on it went, until one irritated critic was moved to ask: "Is there a difference between Best Western Actor with Black Stetson and Best-Dressed Cowboy Excluding Canes and Ruffled Vests?" Almost everyone agreed with Angry Loser Ed Sullivan (his presentation of the brilliant Moiseyev Dancers went without a nod), who came away convinced that the academy's 4,000 members had again turned the election into a personal popularity contest...
Though refusing to favor any candidate for the Democratic nomination, Butler said he thought that Adlai Stevenson would not refuse nomination, were it offered to him. He stated, however, that while many party members seem to favor Stevenson, "most of the professionals are suspicious of a two-time loser...
...Powell's reforms had little charm for Jerry Myles, 44, six-time loser (burglary), sometime poem scribbler, and the prison yard's most flagrant homosexual. Nor did they change the attitude of Myles's closest friend, willowy, 19-year-old Lee Smart, who at 16 got 30 years for clubbing a man to death. Last week the pair conspired to set off one of the most harrowing riots in the recent years of trouble in the nation's prisons...