Word: loses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their numbers have dropped from 300,000 to 100,000; last month in Austria's elections they got but four out of 165 seats. In 1946 there were 16 Communists among the cabinet ministers of Western Europe; now there are none. Their party membership rolls shrink, their newspapers lose readers by the hundreds, in some cases have already folded...
Lodge continued: ". . . Last week the Soviet representative [Vishinsky] said to me, 'You are going to lose Asia anyway.' That astounding remark made me realize how far apart his view of humanity is from mine. The U.S. is not trying to get Asia. We have never thought of Asia as some sort of object inhabited by slaves which was to be won or lost by outsiders...
...Calorie Beer." In Atlanta, the Constitution's Editor Ralph McGill was punishing himself at breakfast and lunch with a trick powder, mixed with fruit juice, to kill appetite. Said McGill, 25 Ibs. lighter in 14 weeks: "I just decided to stop being silly about it and lose some of that ugly weight." His regimen still allowed him to enjoy a standard dinner...
...interest in a monthly called Street Railway Journal, insisted from the start that trade magazines "have an educational mission . . ." But when he tried to educate his partners (e.g., the magazine must concentrate on the new electric trolleys), they argued that trolley owners would never give up horses and lose their profitable sideline selling manure...
...said, both in the Kansas article and in the letter to the CRIMSON from Mr. Sutherland and myself, there is no legal privilege to shield one's friends by silence. One who is asked to testify to matters which actually tend to show his guilt does not lose the immunity he would have available, by reason of the fact that his claim of the privilege would not only protect him, but would incidentally protect his associates as well. But no matter what a man's code of friendship may be, if he swears that an answer will tend to incriminate...