Word: loses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same group that made the attempt to storm Blair House and assassinate Harry Truman in 1950. A fourth member of the gang was picked up at a bus terminal. The four had left New York that morning, buying one-way railroad tickets in the expectation that they would lose their lives. In the woman's handbag, police found a penciled suicide note. "Before God, and the world," it said, "my blood claims for the independence of Puerto Rico. My life I give for the freedom of my country. This is a cry for victory in our strugle for independence...
Meeting No. 2. From Nixon's hideaway, Dirksen strolled over to Mundt's office, where he found Joe McCarthy, Said Dirksen: "Joe, would you sit down and talk it over? There is nothing to lose." It took some persuading to break; down the obdurate McCarthy, but at; length he agreed. Mundt phoned Stevens, suggesting lunch the next day. Stevens assented−and he made the fantastic mistake of taking literally Mundt's request, not to tell "anyone" about the date...
With Government Money. But what has McCarthy to lose? He is not running for President. He has no organized following to nourish and protect. His Senate seat is safe for five more years. He runs unhandicapped by responsibility and even by the heavier forms of ambition. What he thirsts for is what he got last week−a sense of personal power, personally wielded, a centripetal force that brings men to his doorstep and makes responsible officers of Government turn in their tracks before his onslaught. A President cannot do that. A Senator, McCarthy's kind of Senator...
...College for his "distinguished services to the principles of American democracy," America's No. 1 Democrat Adlai Stevenson was given a bronze bust of Franklin D. Roosevelt. "Now that I have his head, no telling what I might do," cracked Stevenson. "I only hope I don't lose mine...
BOOTLEG sales of new 1954 cars at cut-rate prices to used-car dealers is becoming a serious problem. Both Ford and General Motors have sent letters to their 26,200 dealers warning that any dealer caught selling new automobiles below the list price may lose his franchise...