Word: loses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anguished question of Algeria-the possibility that it may become another Indo-China, closer to home-is the one unknowable in all comfortable calculations about the future of parliamentary democracy in France. In such a crisis, Pierre Poujade, who now waves an uncertain banner before his followers, may lose them to a leader of hardier intent, or discover his own opportunity for power...
Passing Fancy? Whoever won in any such contest between thugs of the right and left, the center voices of moderation would be likely to lose. In France, the moderate's voice is getting harder to hear. Every day, as the Mollet government fumbles, Frenchmen die in Algeria, French anger and disgust swells, Poujade's dynamic appeal grows more persuasive to many disillusioned Frenchmen. "It is getting painful to be French," observed Novelist Albert Camus recently...
...announced to the sports world before the contest that Harvard was going to snap Yale's streak of 141 consecutive victories. He had three reasons for his prediction: 1) a close meet is naturally more exciting than a runaway and will therefore get more publicity; 2) if Yale did lose, it would not look bad in doing so because the loss was "predicted"; 3) if Yale won, as anyone who follows swimming knew it would, the Blue would look even better than its winning position merited because it was an "underdog...
...controversial treatment in the hope of lessening the likelihood of a second heart attack. According to Dr. Paul Dudley White, the Boston heart specialist, the President takes a pill containing a drug that "thins" the blood. The treatment is tricky because if it goes too far the blood might lose all clotting power, and a nick suffered while shaving could cause dangerous bleeding. The President's doctors make frequent tests, make sure that his blood still has a safe margin of clotting power. He was taking pills daily, now takes them only when tests indicate that it is necessary...
...correspondents had to wait another 15 minutes before they could get the news out. Then the U.P.'s Merriman Smith uttered the conference-ending words ("Thank you, Mr. President"), and newsmen stampeded for the door. Against the risk that their White House correspondents in the front rows might lose precious seconds in the crush, all the wire services stationed extra men near the door; Smith tipped his own man with a wink and a nod as he rose to end the conference. Newsmen lucky enough to have staked out corridor phone booths leaped to call their offices. But some...