Word: loses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this "little general election" (as most Britons are calling it) could result in a prompt full general election. Middle-class North Lewisham, a marginal district that gave the Tories a mere 3,236-vote plurality (in a total vote of 40,904) in 1955, might cause the Tories to lose a seat...
...admitted, however, that neither the Eagles nor the Crimson can really afford to lose a game, since Clarkson and St. Lawrence have only suffered three losses between them...
...Afford to Lose...
...would not feel secure in permitting American correspondents to travel in that country. On another occasion he alleged that the Chinese were stubbornly holding the prisoners to force the U.S. to allow newsmen to enter the country. If this should be the case, it seems that the U.S. cannot lose, and it would be in any event a small ransom to pay, for a government that bought the release of four airmen downed in Hungary in 1951 by paying a $120,000 "fine...
...strike or a dock brawl, feuded for years with the West Coast longshoremen's left-wing Boss Harry Bridges (and once got a smashed jaw from a C.I.O.-swung baseball bat), had an old syndicalist's hatred of both Communists and capitalists ("Squeeze the shipowners . . . make them lose dough...