Word: loses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...existing socialist system, as typified by Great Britain, tends to stagnate, and its adherents lose interest and enthusiasm. This situation can be remedied only by a self-government interested in attaining a definite goal, Dos Passos said...
...regime troops shooting down many miners. But it is an M.N.R. article of faith that the mines' tin-baron owners and the government they dominated provoked the massacre. Moving to the kill, Lechin got up a convention resolution denouncing Guevara for "inexact and tendentious statements." Siles, who could lose the next election without Lechin's support, signed it; so did Paz Estenssoro. Guevara had no choice but to resign...
...designers of the ICBM believe that re-entry is their worst problem. The missile must not burn up, as most natural meteors do, and it must not lose its shape. Its thermonuclear warhead must not be exploded prematurely, and it must not be so damaged that it will not explode...
...reader may accept much of Reynaud's picture of France. But the picture that really stays in the mind is the one he has drawn by inadvertence-the picture of men who would rather lose a war than an argument...
According to one policeman, the elder McCoy said the idea of "putting my daughter away" had been on his mind for several days. He said he feared that his daughter would lose her employment. Another policeman said that McCoy killed his daughter "because the devil prompted me. . . . I wanted her to die before...