Word: loses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Will you listen, Americans?" Talmadge asks in the book. "Segregation in the South . . . has proven itself to the best interest of both races . . . Nations composed of a mongrel race lose their strength and become weak, lazy and indifferent . . . easy preys to outside nations . . . exactly what the Communists want to happen to the United States." Talmadge offers to segregationalists a two-point program 1) the whites must organize from the county level, to head off creeping integration; 2) white voters must beware of that "candidate . . . who will make deals, sell...
...contest for the title of the world's greatest opera house, Vienna would probably lose to Milan's La Scala, and might have strong competition from New York's Metropolitan. But Vienna is the heart of Operaland, not only because it was an artistic home to generations of music's greats from Mozart to Richard Strauss, not only because it has devoutly performed opera for more than 300 years through occupation, war and famine, but because in a sense, all Vienna is an opera stage. The baroque palaces no longer signify military power or proud aristocracy...
...hard on the morale to lose so many games where a mistake here or there has been the difference," Coach Kelley admitted. "But the game with Harvard means an awful lot to us." Game Lineups BROWN HARVARD Bence LE Morrison Robertshaw LT Tice Crews LG Meigs Carolan C Meyer Kalesnik RG Metropoulos McGuinese RT Maher Frazier RE Kennedy Demohak QB Crehore Thompson LH Joslin Cronin RH Lewis Piskuskas FB Gianelly Referee--William T. Halloran Umpire--Joseph K. Schwarzer Linesman--John G. Kelleher Field Judge--N. P. St. Francis, Jr. Game time...
...recent spate of official reunification talk developed because the bulk of the West German population is beginning to lose interest in the issue. This is not to say that there is any opposition to reunification in West Germany. Everybody is "for" it, just as everybody is "for" democracy. But the real question is just how much one is willing to give up for a united Germany. While in the early post-war years the Germans did not have much to sacrifice, now they have a great deal they would have to give up for reunification, and there seems little willingness...
...enterprising hero of Cash McCall finds himself in just the situation he describes, while picking up a small, family-owned plastics outfit called Suffolk Moulding. Suffolk is put on the auction block in a panic by its President Grant Austen when he fears he is about to lose a vital contract. Cash offers Austen $2,000,000, and a handshake clinches the deal. Cash is soon clinching with Grant's lissome daughter Lory in a losing proxy fight for his heart...