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Word: losers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Leaving the picture, I came momentarily to my senses. "A thorough-going loser," I sneered in a burst of slashing iconoclasm...

Author: By Frederick W. Byron jr., | Title: Tides of Passion | 11/1/1958 | See Source »

...getting damned mad about this") and finally browbeat the Yankees into winning one. Don Larsen and Ryne Duren combined for a 4-0 shutout, but at that only four hits came from Yankee bats all day-three of them by the rejuvenated Bauer ("Being a good loser is the bunk"), who knocked in all four runs with his third series homer, two singles. He still managed to get picked off first once again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hero & Goat | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

...Brattle management has at last supplied us with conclusive proof that all the old Bogart movies are not great. The proof is High Sierra; it is a shuddering loser...

Author: By Daniel Field, | Title: High Sierra | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

...London Sunday Dispatch gleefully revealed what it claimed to be the slimming secret: a bland diet ordered by a fat, fiftyish hair-restorer salesman named Jos de Cock, who runs the "Enorga Institute" in The Hague. After an analysis of strips of litmus paper that a prospective weight loser licks after meals, went the story, De Cock devises a special diet for a low-calorie fee (sample: $37 for eight weeks' advice, plus $17 for the diet lists). Despite palace "No comments," Hollanders thought that De Cock might soon be paring a few more royal lines: at Juliana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 29, 1958 | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

After defeating the prep school crew, the eight proved their superiority over Washington Lee High School. This Fourth of July race was never close. Two lengths separated winner and loser...

Author: By Claude E. Welch jr., | Title: The Royal Regatta at Henley on Thames | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

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