Word: loses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stevenson. "I am one of those who does not believe all students are dangerous or even that all professors are subversive," he said. "In this era marked and even scarred by a new form of anti-intellectualism, I say, eggheads of the world arise-you have nothing to lose but your yolks." As Stevenson left the hall one group of University of California instructors and staff members broke into another serenade, to the tune of Clementine...
...People have confidence in me, but they don't have patience to wait," said Houphouet-Boigny last week. "Unless the French act quickly, I will lose control of our people-and blood will flow in Africa...
GERMAN UNIFICATION. Gronchi thinks the U.S. must produce some "new proposals" for German unification, or Chancellor Konrad Adenauer will progressively lose support, and West Germany will fall for some Soviet proposal...
...theory that operating costs increase only slightly as capacity goes up. He talks of atomic-powered 100,000-tonners in the not-too-distant future. Present-day merchant fleets, Niarchos points out, are never too far from the financial reefs. In a bad year, a ship can lose more than half its value. In the best of times, merchantmen usually work ten years or more to pay off their owners' mortgages. Thinking of his heavily mortgaged fleet, Niarchos claims he is still a long way from blue water. Says he jokingly: "All we really own is the air between...
...last year the U.S. Justice Department objected to A.A.A.A.'s powerful influence in the business, charged it with restraining trade by fixing agency fees (TIME, May 9). Last week, with little to gain by going into court and little to lose by settling, A.A.A.A. signed a consent decree with Chief Trustbuster Stanley Barnes. (Suits against five other associations are still unsettled...