Word: loses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most of the students, who had been given the option by their schools either to attend the hearing or to go to classes, brought their own lunches so as not to lose their seats during the mid-day recess. They had to be restrained in their enthusiasm for their professors by Edward Besaulnier, chairman of the hearing...
...fight to win while knowing he must lose...
...ring foes piled through the ropes, Dempsey engaged each in a heavyweight exchange of compliments. Said towering Fred Fulton, whom the Mauler knocked out in 18 seconds of the first round in 1918: "If I had to lose, I was glad it was to Jack Dempsey." Replied Dempsey: "It was you fellows who made me." From France came Georges Carpentier, a dandy of 63, who plugged not only Dempsey but his own Paris restaurant. From the Argentine came Luis Angel Firpo, 62, once the Wild Bull of the Pampas, now a lumbering giant whose dignity shone somehow through his confusion...
...broken off, to avoid fresh incest. And when Sophia dies abruptly of "some internal illness that is mortal." the children really feel it is time for them to go and live somewhere else. The neighbors agree that this is a wise move, though naturally they are sorry to lose a family that has brought so much interesting abnormality into the village and has undergone what is described as "plenty of maturing experience lately." But the general conclusion is that the Staces have been much luckier than most families because (as an old friend says): "Tragedy is by far the best...
...marriage); why Europe is becoming a bore; what it is with Soc Rel; marriage; the temperature; and John Foster Dulles. At about 10:30 I sensed that she was growing listless. I got up and put on some Stravinsky. But it was no use. She was definitely beginning to lose interest. I looked at my watch; it was 11:15. I got up to turn Stravinsky over, shuffling my feet loudly as I went. When I got back, her eyes were glazed, but she had gamely propped herself up with her elbows. I decided to try to stick...