Word: loses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Colombia is already a sizable oil producer, getting some 12% of its export earnings from sales of 32 million bbls. of crude a year. But over the years the risky Colombian oilfields have been good places to lose money as well as to make it, and hopeful 1950 oil decrees have attracted little new interest. Ecopetrol itself was created not as a nationalistic gesture but because a U.S. company handed back a concession that had expired, and no other foreign firm wanted to take over...
...conducting, he added teaching at Tanglewood and Brandeis University, spends his spare moments with his wife, Actress Felicia Montealegre, and three-year-old daughter. He worries that he may be scattering his talent: "Diversification means you can arrive brand-new and fresh at each undertaking, but you may also lose your line of development, especially in composing." Now his problem of too many skills is further threatened by his emergence as a TV performer. Bernstein is committed to two more Omnibus appearances this season, but his lively mind teems with dozens of projects: "I want to examine Bach and Mozart...
...when she sang with the famed Bach Aria Group in Manhattan's Town Hall. She steered the opulent sounds of her voice gracefully along the sometimes tortured paths of Bach's counterpoint. Its gamut was smooth and even from the light, flutey high notes, where sopranos often lose character, to rich, viola-like lows. When she finished her arias, she accepted her heavy applause and sat down serenely, secure in the knowledge that she could remain at the top of the concert heap indefinitely...
...spinning nuclei can affect the spin of other nuclei near them. So high-energy spin can spread through a substance in much the same way that heat does. Low-energy spin can spread, too, so a substance whose atoms are motionless in the ordinary sense can still lose energy and cool below absolute zero...
...brashness, arrogance, and what the Sunday Observer called his "natural gifts in the unfashionable art of rudeness." After Eton and 18 months at Oxford, his assurance helped him pull off a seven-month, $12,500, U.S. lecture tour at the age of 19. It also helped him to lose six elections for Parliament from 1935 to 1951; the only time Randolph managed to get into Commons was during the wartime political truce, when the Conservative Party let him have an uncontested seat...