Word: losers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...barest of margins, ran with the same intensity for the right to run for the lesser office of Governor. In Massachusetts, the Kennedy family, unafraid of the slings and arrows from lesser breeds, proudly ran its youngest son through a convention gauntlet, and saw him emerge the victor. The loser was kin to the Speaker of the House, but no matter-the Kennedys know how to win and patch up. In Connecticut, always considered a bellwether state, no fewer than six Republicans spent lavishly of their blood, sweat and cash, and fought through eight ballots at a party convention...
...machine, APRA controls the country's 500,000-member Workers' Confederation and the 1,300,000-member Peasants' Federation. Haya predicts that he will win with more than 1,000,000 votes out of an expected 2,000,000. But Fernando Belaúnde, the 1956 loser, is giving APRA a hard race. Tirelessly stumping Peru's 144 provinces, he preaches much the same economic and social reform as does APRA, draws huge crowds from all those who hate and fear APRA. His opinions about the rabid left hardened abruptly a fortnight ago when...
...Besides," McLaughlin continued. "I have proven my ability to get votes. As a practical political matter, you want to nominate a winner and not a loser." In 1961 he topped Augustus G. Means, the Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor by 209,000 votes. Volpe defeated Joseph Ward, the Democratic candidate for governor, by 139,000 votes...
Detroit's seventh newspaper strike in as many years ended last week, after 28 newspaperless days. As usual, everybody was a loser: the settlement represented a compromise that made neither side very happy, and the city's readers were faced with the unpleasant chore of catching up on events that had slipped past them during the last month. Meantime, in Minneapolis, the strike against the Star and Tribune [TIME, May 11] entered its fifth week, with the end not yet in sight...
Maybe. But no such suggestion came from Loser Swanberg, or from his publisher. Both watched with satisfaction as sales of Citizen Hearst spurted, helped along by deliberately ambiguous ads: "We are delighted to hear that the Pulitzer Prize Advisory Board decided that this biography was the best published last year...