Word: loses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hickey comes bearing a new gospel--"beat the game of life" by trying to attain the consoling dream. Failure is sure, but the dream will lose its haunting power; failure will bring an end to torment and a perfect peace. The barflies find, however, that to abandon the dream is to die, and that Hickey's peace is the peace of death. The only way to play the game of life is against the usual, heavy odds. Harry Hope and his friends decide that Hickey is mad, and go back to the old life of torment and bad whiskey...
...leftenant colonel," said Alec Guinness, alluding-in an interview with syndicated Nightscrawler Earl Wilson-to his Academy Award-winning interpretation of Colonel Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai. "The moneybags always say, 'Let's make another picture exactly like the last one'-and they lose their shirts. Now we're in the middle of the horror cycle. I hope they all do lose their shirts...
...anything can happen in the Heps. Since the Heptagonals beginning in 1939, Harvard has had "lots of seconds," but never a winner. Some of the Crimson's strongest runners of past years have gone undefeated, only to lose to someone who happened to have a particularly strong day. And cross-country being the largely psychological sport that it is, the sight of ten or tweve pedigree runners from the Ivy League and the service academies is enough to unnerve the stoutest heart...
Massachusetts voters tended to be less sympathetic to the Democrats running for Congress, although the G.O.P. did lose at least one seat. The loss came in the 13th district where former State Representative James A. Burke defeated Republican William W. Jeness by a margin of almost...
...other side of the continent, Senate Minority Leader William Knowland is expected to lose to Democrat Pat Brown. Should Rockefeller win in New York while his party is losing in California, he will loom as a strong contender for the Presidential nomination...