Word: loses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...head would disappear." But he was disturbed by the riots that followed the House of the People's unanimous vote (the Communists abstaining). "Parliament puts its seal upon [a bill] and it becomes law," said Nehru. "What happens then? Do you go on fighting about it? Once you lose in Parliament, do you take the issue to the streets? Are we becoming an opera for the world to laugh...
...muck of Flanders and France-2,706.154 casualties for the British; 4,974,000 for the French; 4,846,340 for the Germans-but carved new conquests out of the vanquished Ottoman Empire. The last of the Empire builders, Italy's Benito Mussolini, grasped vast Libya only to lose it, his nation and his own life, in World...
...carny world, says Sociologist Krassowski, is a tempting one: "You work like a wild donkey, you don't sleep and you lose weight. You knock the tents down and put them up and knock them down again. But I'm a carny now. In my stand, I watch the customers come in and I find myself thinking: "Poor people, poor people. They cannot do as they please...
...jittery boys and girls reported in at specified schools, sat down at the desks assigned to them, and waited for the clock to strike nine. For the next three hours they tackled questions for which none of them could have crammed. They matched pairs of words (POSSESS is to LOSE, as a) hesitate is to advance, b) cease is to recur, c) undertake is to perform, d) continue is to desist, e) produce is to supply); solved math problems and arranged given sentences into intelligible paragraphs ("a) Since his day it has undergone change, b) President James Monroe announced...
Mush-to gain little or no altitude or to lose altitude when the angle of attack would normally indicate a gain...