Word: loses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oregon last year. "I'm just a country boy, just a punk governor from a little state." His appointment as Secretary of the Interior, he said, reminded him of the small boy who entered his pet pooch in a pedigreed dog show; when told he was sure to lose, the boy replied, "That's all right-I didn't expect him to win. I just wanted to enter him so he could meet a lot of nice dogs...
Ever since the collapse of Estes Kefauver's 1952 bid for the presidential nomination, some political dopesters have been predicting that he might lose his seat in the Senate. Such predictions neatly fitted the plans of third-term Tennessee Congressman Pat Sutton of Lawrenceburg (pop. 5,500), who this year entered the lists against Kefauver in the Democratic primary...
Some kind of French retreat seems inevitable in North Africa, as it was in Indo-China. The question is whether it will be made in good order. "We must leave," said one French settler. "It could still be done today, gradually and without catastrophe. True, some French colonists may lose their estates. But if things go on as they are, they may lose their heads as well." Probably not many colons in Tunisia would agree with him; they hope to stay. Whether they will be able to depends on French wisdom and skill-on the wisdom to recognize a changing...
...cooling-off. NLRB decided that from now on a union may strike legally only when a contract ends or is subject to alteration. New interpretation of the Taft-Hartley Act means workers who go out on strike at other times during the life of a contract thereby lose all of their job rights...
...approval, British Columbia laid down some stiff conditions for Lindsley. He must put up a $2,500,000 bond, which will be forfeited if he fails to meet any one of the annual development targets between 1955 and 1962. Furthermore. in the case of such failure. Lindsley will lose his license to the water rights, as well as the full value of work done up to that time. Unlike an earlier deal worked out with Aluminum Co. of Canada for its Kitimat project (see THE HEMISPHERE), Lindsley's agreement calls for no tax concessions, no special rates for water...