Word: loses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...question not easy to answer. Their color could not be improved. Their handling of shapes is as fine as anyone might hope. In theory everything is au juste. In practice, from afar, the two paintings are exciting and of the highest caliber. Yet, on successive viewings they lose impact where the Cezannes and earlier Picassos get better. The two still-lifes become vulnerable to the charge that they are more decorative than substantial...
...tense days a year ago, after the May 13 Algerian riots that started Charles de Gaulle on his way to power, one French Deputy pleaded: "Let us vote for him lest we lose the right to vote altogether." Last week, as the new Assembly of the Fifth Republic opened its first regular session, flabbergasted Deputies got a demonstration of just how much they had lost after...
Marilyn is majoring in physical education, gets one semester-hour credit for her tennis, plans to become a physical education instructor. She frets about the kidding administered to males who lose to her. "It makes me feel bad," she says. "I don't think it's fair for them to tease...
...brought many modernizing attempts; schools of medicine and engineering were added, admission and teaching requirements were set up, class attendance became obligatory. But al-Azhar remained engulfed in the past. As World War II, the Palestine war, and revolution forced Egypt toward the modern era, al-Azhar began to lose its universal respect...
...months of psychiatric and other treatment, he got a medical discharge and was sent home to his wife, Singer Edna Savage, 22. Edna had had her eye blackened by Terry before they were married, saw him arrested for drunken brawling three times in 18 months, vowed: "If the army loses Terry Dene, I'm afraid Terry Dene will lose...