Word: loses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Happy come back so far so fast? Simple: he ordered some 20,000 state employees to work and vote for him in the county and state conventions-or lose their jobs. "Not since Huey Long bulldozed his way to power in Louisiana has any man used such Gestapo-like tactics to gain a political goal," fumed the Louisville Courier-Journal. "Happy and his cohorts have drawn the line at nothing...
When U.S. composers set out to exploit uniquely native material, they all too frequently lose sight of the folk for the folksiness. Pulitzer Prizewinner Douglas Moore, 62, a Columbia professor, has been a notable exception. At least one of his previous operas, The Devil and Daniel Webster, achieved an easy lyrical style which has kept it alive in repertory as an authentic domestic classic. For his fourth opera, premiered last week at the legend-laden Opera House in Central City, Colo., Composer Moore once again mined some rich native lore: the story of Colorado Silver Millionaire Horace Austin Warner...
...become the responsible leaders of the world . . . only to break that hope." Then, with tears in his eyes he moved into a peroration that the Senate knew was colored by the loss of his naval-aviator son in World War II. "If the free people of this globe lose confidence in us, we shall disappoint the best hopes of mankind−and we shall utterly fail to justify the sacrifices of our heroic dead, who have died in nearly all lands and have been swallowed up by the blue waters of nearly all oceans...
...economy. Moreover, the economy is strong enough to stand a strike−even in steeland with Government playing it strictly hands off, both sides must coldly face the results of a strike on profits and incomes. The pressures are new and different. Industry must keep up its earnings or lose new investment capital. As for labor, a TIME correspondent reported from Gary, Ind. last week: "Not many of the men have been hungry for years. Most of them are up to their ears in installment debt. They don't really want a strike...
Many speculators made fortunes by selling short. But thousands of small investors lost heavily in the sliding market. Though Italy can ill afford to lose investment capital, hundreds of millions of dollars have already fled the country...