Word: loses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mapping his own breakneck campaign, Republican Chamberlain must work with different equations. He knows that a huge Genesee County turnout, born of economic unrest, could swallow him up. He has therefore thrown most of his remarkable energies into holding his own in labor's county. "I will lose the county," he says, "but I'm trying to keep my losses to a minimum. I'm trying to let the laboring man know that there is nothing inconsistent with my being a Republican and being interested in the welfare of the individual worker." Even while trying to stave...
...United States seriously expects to claim the world's respect for any other reason than material wealth and brute strength, it cannot lose the capacity for unmitigated self-criticism...
...these words would have had little meaning for John Reed. As poet, war correspondent, Communist, and Harvardman, John Reed saw life as one Big Game. You could lose the game, but it wasn't worth dying for. Life was too exciting...
...Derek T. Winans '60, one of the leaders of the opposition to the Council's withdrawal, viewed the outcome as "disappointing." "There should have been a greater number of people voting," Winans claimed. He added his surprise at the results, noting that he did not expect his side to lose...
When The Long Night begins for Steely, his father has walked out on his family. But on this day, Mamma has hit it lucky playing the numbers game. When she sends Steely to collect her $27, she warns him: "And if you lose that money, boy, don't you come back at all." He doesn't lose it; bigger boys of his own gang take it away from him. The rest of The Long Night tells how Steely tries to beg, borrow or steal $27. No one will let him work for it. The Harlem fancy...