Word: loses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there are no front lines, no territorial objectives, no general rules to restrain belligerents-only a war of repression and attrition. Result: a sentiment d'inquieétude spreading through France, based on the growing realization that while the Algerian struggle is one the French cannot afford to lose, it is also probably one they cannot win. Also spreading is the feeling that the 380,000-man French army in Algeria, reduced to waging a gloryless police action, is using cruel and cynical methods in totting up its weekly bag of rebels killed...
...Kong, allowed: "You can now call me a primitive donna!" In her travels about the Orient, West Virginia-born Singer Steber, 40, a recent divorceée, had also observed some exotic marriage customs, including the blissful servitude of Oriental wives. Said she: "I now see why American women lose their husbands. The Asians sure know how to hold on to theirs. Marriage in the United States today is a highly unsatisfactory business, and American women are to blame...
...press. Slowing the game, picking their play patterns carefully, hitting the basket with sudden accuracy, the Tigers moved into the lead. They held on even after their star, Win Wilfong, fouled out, were in front 83-81 with less than a minute to go. Then the referees seemed to lose their whistles; players sprawled all over the court, fouling and being fouled as they sprawled. With seconds to go, Bradley's Shellie McMillon grabbed a loose ball, sank his shot and was fouled in the process. This time the officials responded. McMillon sank the foul to give Bradley...
Gilmor, winner of eight of ten matches at 177, also advanced to the quarterfinals, only to lose a 7 to 4 decision to Les Walters of Penn State...
Enter the Machine. This method can only be used in cases where the surgeon can count on getting in and out of the heart in less than eight minutes. Moreover, under hypothermia the heart is especially likely to lose its regular beat and flutter uselessly (fibrillate), which may cause death. What was still needed was a pumping device to take over the functions of both heart and lungs for as long as necessary to operate. At Philadelphia's Jefferson Medical College, Surgeon John Heysham Gibbon Jr. had been working on such a device for almost 20 years. Bailey himself...