Word: loses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most successful Crimson candidate, he advanced to the quarterfinals on the strength of a five-game victory over Roger Sonnaband of the Harvard Club, only to lose out to Don Scott, former Princeton captain, in four games. The other entrants, Bill Wister, number three, and Johnny Rauh, number five, both lost out in the first round...
Rauh, however, advanced to the consolation finals, only to lose to Bill Howe, of New Haven, in four games...
...standing pat on the programs of the New Deal of the thirties, he let the nation lose ground to the evils which a modern New Deal should attack. Slums have continued their spread and decay. The health of those millions who cannot really afford voluntary programs is getting worse. The teacher shortage mounts everywhere. In the face of these problems, the President has done no more than wrinkle up his forehead, appoint a study commission (all have been studied for years) and mouth lofty, empty statements of concern over the "human needs" of his people...
...hour and a half early. And one paper, the Melbourne Argus, felt called upon to write an open letter to Australia's two 19-year-old tennis prodigies, Lewis Hoad and Ken Rosewall, trying to take the pressure off the youngsters. Gist of the letter: "If you lose, it will not be a major tragedy in Australian history...
While Manolios is wrestling with himself on the mountain and winning, the townspeople wrestle with their collective conscience and lose. A starving band of refugees, uprooted by the Turks from another village, appear at the gates of Lycovrissi and plead for bread and a chance to start new lives in the town. But, led by their priest himself, the people of Lycovrissi hoot the newcomers off to a barren neighboring hill, where they settle miserably in caves...