Word: loses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Time to Lose...
...Gaullist defection started a political bank run. Backbench Deputies besieged their leaders, urging them to desert the government. They had differing reasons, but a single fear: if this government was blamed for "losing North Africa," they stood to lose their seats in next year's elections. The dissident Gaullists caucused and demanded that Minister of Moroccan and Tunisian Affairs Pierre July resign. July refused. Then, the Independents voted for the withdrawal of Foreign Minister Pinay and the Independents' two other Cabinet members...
Kubitschek may have secretly hoped that his man Jango would lose. That result could actually improve Kubitschek's prospects of taking office in routine fashion on inauguration day (Jan. 31). The army generals who last year demanded President Getulio Vargas' resignation (he committed suicide instead) have little liking for Kubitschek. He was a friend of Vargas and member of a pro-Vargas party, the Social Democrats; thus he was at least indirectly linked with the charges of corruption that brought the Vargas regime crashing down. But the generals have even less liking for youthful (37) Rabble-Rouser Goulart...
...Paradise, now happy as Jellicoe the butler, puts it neatly: "It's being led that matters. You lose your head if people aren't sitting...
...that author and hero steadily mature in opposite directions. Equally upsetting is the fact that Reid did not bother to fit his three parts together very neatly. Tom enjoys two parents and a granny in the first two volumes and becomes an abrupt orphan in the third. To lose one parent, as Lady Bracknell suggests in The Importance of Being Earnest, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both seems like carelessness...