Word: loses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson crews are such underdogs for this weekend's races against Yale that they actually have nothing to lose and the season's biggest upset...
Still, warned Ike: "The goals we have set for ourselves have not been reached. But progress has been made ... we know that these goals are not achieved all at once. Mankind moves forward by little steps ... if we never lose sight of that goal and every step takes us one inch closer to it, then that is progress. We are carrying a torch. We are carrying a fire. We are not carrying ashes...
...with such a thud, that the intellectual seemed to come into his own. But war and prosperity brought the practical men back, and the nation's band of intellectuals seemed to be tuning up for another song of despair. While Joe McCarthy was running amuck, a few did lose their heads, but the McCarthy flurry only tended to obscure one central fact. Far from repeating the attitudes of the '205, the American intellectual stayed at home and even found himself feeling at home. His perennial problem has been to reconcile himself to a society that has always refused...
SOLVENCY CHECK of Texas insurance companies, growing out of last year's insurance scandal (TIME, Dec. 26), will put 34 more companies out of business. All told, under tough new laws, 94 of 1,313 insurance companies in state failed to meet financial requirements. However, policy holders will lose no money since solvent firms will handle their policies either through mergers or reinsurance...
...encounters between two goods rather than between good and evil. In A Single Pebble, a story set against the backdrop of the China of three decades ago, the West's Promethean spirit of change collides with the East's age-old piety of tradition, and both lose...