Word: loses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...down, red gravel was spread like rouge over rough paths and disheveled roads, and a multitude of women of low caste swept every inch of the main highway with hand brooms. If the visitors would only visit enough of the city, went a popular quip, New Delhi might quickly lose all its slums...
Obliging History. The second cold finality of the week was the partition of Germany. Molotov made it plain that the Communists would not risk free elections throughout Germany, knowing they would lose. Even if West Germany were to leave NATO, the Russians would not be satisfied: the only kind of unification they could tolerate would be a united Communist Germany. This was said with the usual Communist implication that history is on their side, and they have only to wait. Perhaps the Kremlin's leaders believe that history will so oblige them; but other explanations are possible. Their decision...
...ramshackle native location in South Africa's province of Natal, a twelve-year-old girl lay ill for months subject to fits and spells of moroseness. Neither a doctor's drugs nor a witch doctor's charms did any good. Little Mavis Sithebe seemed to lose the will to live, took almost no food or drink for two weeks, was in a coma most of the time. One day, according to her tearful mother, "she just closed her eyes and died." Without bothering to examine the body, the district surgeon issued a death certificate. The family sent...
...symphonies with such chores is the task of the 13-year-old American Symphony Orchestra League, Inc. (headquarters: Charleston, W. Va.). The league has been taking a hard look at the music business and in the process, it has uncovered a mass of hitherto uncharted specifics. Item: community orchestras lose about 35% of their subscribers a year, hence must continually make new contacts. Item: it takes an average of 20 contacts to sell one new season ticket...
Howe justified the presence of this group stating, "we think we will gain more than we will lose, both in moral and financial support. The great loyalty of the alumni is worth something to us, not just financially...