Word: loses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...those who choose to wait out the draft, Dupuy pointed out, "You take this gamble, and if you lose, you may have your active duty call come in your late twenties . . . with a three year Ready Reserve obligation continuing until your mid-thirties...
...last month. As might be expected, he celebrated his birthday by watching a basketball game. It was quite a party. Phog saw his varsity soundly trounced, by the K.U. freshmen 81-71- and yet he was the happiest man in the jampacked fieldhouse. Not that Phog likes to lose, but it was pure pleasure for him to watch the biggest freshman of them all, Wilton Chamberlain (7 ft. 2 in., 230 Ibs.), dunk in 42 points all by himself. In 39 years of talking tall young men into coming to Kansas for their higher education, Phog Allen has never recruited...
...underway as quickly as you can. Fill your mind with the subject and write rapidly, then set aside what you have written and go over it later very carefully, sentence by sentence; thus you may got accuracy without stiffness. Writing sentence by sentence with minute care makes your work lose life...
...United States should never have allowed this impasse in the first place. Even if Yugoslavia were elected, the U.S. would not lose its virtual control of the Security Council, despite an occasional Yugoslav-Russian compact. Two voters are no more effective than one. If the U.S. bludgeons its allies into electing the Philippines, however, it will score only a Pyrrhic victory. In order to save face, the U.S. delegation could abstain from voting, itself, but it should put its tacit yet influential support behind Yugoslavia...
...terribly embarrassed." His sense of humor usually remains latent, but it erupts perhaps once a month with some such example of quiet Tillichian humor as: "In Germany the parents bring up the child; in America the child brings up the parents. I moved from Germany to America, so I lose both ways." Or, there was the slightly irreverent remark that Tillich made after the death of an eminent religious philosopher: "Such a shame. And he understood my theology...