Word: loses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republicans' fears are understandable, for it is true that at other colleges central clearing houses have cleared some political organizations right out of the picture. The proposed Harvard Forum, however, hardly justifies the Republicans' qualms. No club will lose its sovereignty. No club will have to take part in any program it dislikes. No club will have to change a single phase of its own activities. The clubs are asked only to cooperate in discussing common problems and to sponsor joint programs if they wish...
...Generous or Lose. Faure had achieved a mighty step forward: he had won approval for a policy of reform in North Africa, and thereby saved a part of France's tattered international reputation. But he had not done it gracefully. He had blinked at insubordination by high military officers, tolerated defiance from his own ministers, allowed appointees to modify his orders and obstruct his express wishes. In so doing, he had jeopardized his own claim to leadership. Yet his very temporizing had forced Frenchmen to accept the difficult fact: France must be generous to North Africa or lose...
...clouds above many airports. They are powerful searchlights that cast a spot of light on the base of the overcast so that an automatic instrument can calculate its height by triangulation. On migrating birds they have a terrible effect. Thousands of the birds, apparently confused by the glaring light, lose their bearings and fly into the ground or against low buildings. Last year 50,000 birds were killed in two nights at two Southern airports. Terres estimates that at least 200,000 were killed that year by airport ceilometers...
...raging protest against high prices, low wages, and the sight of luxury in its midst. Trying to call off a mob from burning a Greek church, a Turkish woman lawyer, Surreya Agaoglu, shouted from her balcony that the marauders were endangering their own homes. "What have we to lose but a blanket and a pot?" came a harridan's screech from the mob. "You wait in your fine home. Your turn will come!" By then it was poor against rich...
...many U.S. papers carried it the day Ike was stricken. Last week the Fund for the Republic decided Herblock was too hot to handle, canceled his TV show. Official reason: he is too political. By permitting him to take sides in political controversies, the Fund was afraid it might lose its tax-exempt status...