Word: loses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whole idea was the brainchild of Nkrumah's "adviser on African affairs," George Padmore, a 55-year-old, Trinidad-born and U.S.-educated (Howard and Fisk) Negro who in his far travels has frequently fellow-traveled. "People of Africa, unite!" said his manifesto. "You have nothing to lose but your chains...
...bestsellers this year: the Bomarc antiaircraft missile (457,000 kits) and the Talos missile (443,000 kits sold since its October introduction). All are intended to be "tough but rewarding to builders from age six on up." Surprisingly, adults make up 40% of the kit market. Says Glaser: "We lose most boys at about age 15; they turn to other hobbies such as girls. But then they marry, and as soon as they have a six-year-old boy we get them back...
...truism of liberal democracy that a minority party should play the critic for the political drama. Yet even gadflies lose their sting when they run away from politics, sit dumbly as the majority perpetrates folly, or cry wolf long after the sheep have been killed. From now until 1960, Bowles maintains, the Deemocrats must persistently repudiate the Administration's blunders in foreign and domestic affairs with eloquence and determination, yet at the same time set forth constructive, intelligent, and fore-sighted alternatives...
Such a restrictive treaty could well be as damaging as no treaty at all. If scientists are forced to give up all hopes of testing theories on the constructive use of the atom, atomic research will lose many of its most devoted and imaginative workers. Even if the ban is legally only a temporary one, there will be a strong moral commitment implicit in it, which may make it difficult ever to resume tests. Considering the possible finality of the agreement they are undertaking, the men at Geneva should introduce flexible provisions governing peaceful experimentation under an international agency...
Masterpieces of literature are hard to come by and even harder to recognize. This is particularly true when they are written in verse, and when they presumably lose their pristine shine in the process of translation. It has taken 20 years for The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel to reach English in hexameter from its original modern Greek. The poem has not been translated into any other language and so is virtually unknown outside its native Greece. But in it, chances are, U.S. readers have a masterpiece at hand, in a fine translation...