Word: loses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WASHINGTON, April 5--The strategic air force commander says the United States may lose the strength to deter the Soviet Union from war unless it boosts production of planes and missiles...
Power said the strength of the United States, relative to that of the Soviet Union, stands to decline over the next few years and added: "A tremendous disservice... is rendered the American people when people say there is a nuclear statlemate. We have the deterrent posture today. We can lose it tomorrow...
...Belgium's Minister for the Congo-and hopes very much to be the last one. Long before the bloody Léopoldville riots last January, he had warned his government that unless it began giving the Congo democracy and some sort of independence, it would face "catastrophe" and lose the colony altogether. When he flew into Léopoldville last week, he got the kind of ugly welcome that France's Premier Guy Mollet once got in Algiers. Angry white settlers shut up their shops in protest, flew flags of mourning, chalked up slogans saying GO HOME, TRAITOR...
...sexless ninny. Yet in many of the recent westerns, the woman is far less passive. She is continually attempting to bring the hero down to earth, to make him face reality. She is behaving like a real woman, "and the hero, as a result, begins to lose his superhuman disinterestedness and sexlessness, begins to behave like a real...
...Advanced Placement program is developing too rapidly for its own good, the latest reports of its founders indicate. Last year 3,000 people took the tests; this year 17,000 are expected to register. The Educational Testing Service, which runs the project, expects to lose $100,000 on the A.P. program this year and even more in the future...