Word: loses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lose, the Crimson will be completing a losing season, but topping Yale would end things on a pleasant note...
...Though far from being strangers to the problem of juvenile delinquency, citizens of New York City last week had reason to lose patience. One day, when rain ruined a school outing, hundreds of pupils swarmed onto subway trains and proceeded to run amok. They terrorized passengers, smashed 237 light bulbs, pulled emergency cords, ripped up seats, pummeled a guard, roughed up a station elevator operator. Snapped Magistrate Charles F. Murphy as he set an exceptional $10.000 bail on one of the ringleaders: "City officials must stop coddling offenders...
...elements, with the clock, with weight or age or strength or with each other, in the name of sport. But a true champion's feats endure because of what the champion himself adds: an undying spirit of competition, an ability to inspire awe, a willingness to gamble on losing, the guts to lose and rise again, an elusive mixture of spirit and showmanship. Whatever it is called?flair, class, style or what Hemingway once termed "grace under pressure"?it is the quality that breeds sport legend...
...University will lose the services of Russell Gibson, associate professor of Economic Geology, now on a year's leave of absence in connection with the Point Four plan, and Charles E. Stearns, assistant professor of Geology, who will become a member of the boards of deans at Tufts College...
...destroy him as a political force. This was still doubtful as little as two months ago. At that time, the President's strategists were well portrayed by the cartoon of an elephant pacing to and fro before a picture of Joe, muttering, "Will he gain me votes or lose them?" But since then, various activities of McCarthy have been criticized by Eisenhower's Vice-President, his Foreign Aid Director, and his Secretary of Defense. His political worth has been questioned by no less a man than Chairman Hall of the Republican National Committee. Insofar as the publication of the Cohn...