Word: loses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...valid claim, and I think it would be narrow and stupid for the U.S. to withdraw from the U.N. One cannot bargain with a nation if one avoids it. One cannot run away from one's enemies. I say, meet with the Communist Chinese. Rather lose pride across the conference table than lose lives across no man's land...
...home for a few months," said the sergeant, "but Paris is so expensive. I'll have to find another war." Said a young German Legionnaire, whose mustache was already tinged with grey: "A friend I have had since Normandy was killed on the road last night. So we lose again, eh?" The German turned to an American: "We've lost before, but you haven't. How do you like...
Only one thing was sure: the trial was no ordinary race. Drivers would lose points for passing secret check points too early or too late; they would be penalized for drifting off course or breaking any one of a long list of rules. They were forbidden to replace a whole host of parts (which were coated with luminous paint to make them glow under ultraviolet light as a check against cheating). The trial would not go to the swift, but to the steady...
...another that it is because he did not smoke or drink. One old lady gave the credit to having had apple pie for breakfast every morning. But most would agree with the 103-year-old man in McHenry, Ill. who said: "If you want to live long, never lose your temper." What do they eventually die of? Not, as a rule, from the diseases of old age. It seems to Dr. Dunbar that most of them "decide when they will die, and usually each dies about the date he has set. Perhaps this is because consciously they are in better...
...from the field. But here, they'll cut your heart out to win. Hell, I'm a nice guy myself when I'm out to dinner. But even if I'm pitching pennies, I want to beat the cursing life out of you. If I lose a big ball game, sure, I'll shake your hand afterwards, but I'm bleeding inside." He snorted. "Good sportsmanship is so much sheep dip. Good sports get that way because they have so much practice losing...