Word: loses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with his father-advisor (for appearance sake only, it seemed), cracked his knuckles, and cracked out the answers. Squealed Emcee Hal March, amid crashing chords of The Marine Hymn: "If you're symbolic of the Marine Corps, Dick, I don't see how we'll ever lose any battles...
...police club. He has a big, slightly hooked nose and a close-trimmed black mustache, a row of regular, white teeth and a brilliant, easy smile. His eyes are piercing and brown, and he talks quietly, gently, and has never been known to raise his voice or lose his temper. Beneath his apparent softness, there is a streak of rough, tough ruthlessness. Last week in his Cairo office, he talked quietly, but he let the toughness come through...
...they did in the brief, bloody rebellion of June 16, the top army generals again rushed to Perón's rescue (or rather to the rescue of the offices, privileges and rackets they stood to lose if the rebels won). Perón's old crony and army minister, balding General Franklin Lucero, again took command of all loyalist military and police units-the "forces of repression" as the government baldly labeled them. But it was not as underlings carrying out Perón's orders that Lucero & Co. acted. Whether he was shoved or merely...
...toss at the cast's feet, and the press tossed rosy adjectives. Would any other opera house undertake it? Probably not without drastic cuts-and a new leading lady. Said Soprano Dow: "They can do it again, but not with me. I don't want to lose my voice...
...many companies still hold back, fear that employees will lose faith in the corporate publication if management tries to express its views or discuss union-management problems. Yet, polls of employees by both management and unions have shown that, in general, employees put more faith in what they read in company publications than they do in union papers. And publications which have dropped the social notes in favor of stories on corporate problems have found that their readership has jumped. Concludes one company president: "In many companies, we just haven't given employees a chance to hear both sides...