Word: loses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have no quarrel with many of the Weekend's events. Crew races, band concerts, and House dances are good entertainment, when taken separately. But they lose their individuality in a three-day fun fling topped off by a bathing beauty contest...
Brownell Wins, Others Lose...
...service personnel undoubtedly is shocking to many Americans. However, it confirms my observation during a reserve-recall tour in Japan and Korea: as fast as the diplomats make friends for us in that part of the world, many service personnel, with their cocky, bullying and overbearing mannerisms, lose these friends for us. How long will this careless attitude of some of the troops be tolerated by the top brass...
...which they can forage for themselves, countless children in Asia, Africa and South America suffer from kwashiorkor (a West African word meaning red boy), Capetown's Dr. John F. Brock reported in Manhattan. Fed mainly on manioc gruel, they are stunted and their skin and hair lose pigment, making them look reddish or grey. For short-term relief, U.N. agencies are supplying thousands of tons of dried skim milk, rich in protein. But in the long run, said Dr. Brock, these primitive peoples must be taught to feed their children beans, which they can raise...
...every year thereafter. It must also sink two wells by 1956, start another two by the middle of 1958, and drill a well a year in each of the two adjoining districts* (Katalla-Yakataga) from 1959 to 1963, making a total of twelve wells in ten years. Phillips will lose the rights to land it does not develop under the terms of the contract...