Word: loses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Faubus' two opponents had tried first to run against the third-term issue, found that voters had accepted the calculated Faubus definition of the campaign: show the "outsiders," including President Eisenhower and "the Yankee press," that Arkansas does not want integrated schools. With the courage to win or lose on horse sense, Chancery Judge Lee Ward of Paragould (pop. 10,000) grimly contrasted his own law-and-order segregationism with the "bullet and bayonet approach" taken by Faubus. "Orval Faubus stands today on the brink of treason," said he in an election eve TV speech. "Is it war between...
...will enforce it. And packers probably will fall into line. Although the measure contains no noncompliance penalties, packers who hammer cattle and hoist conscious pigs are ineligible to bid on Government contracts. And the U.S., purchasing $250 million worth of meat a year, is too big a customer to lose...
Flying at 6,000 ft., averaging 152 m.p.h., Boling swung routinely above Okinawa and Japan, jumped the ocean to the Aleutians. There he ran into his only trouble. When the wingtip tanks unaccountably began to lose fuel, and the engine coughed in the cold, Boling began running over his ditching check list. Then he decided to stay with the plane. He dropped to 1,500 ft.; when the engine purred again, he flew confidently on. Approaching the Pendleton airport he radioed a single request: permission to land without circling because...
...profits. A few hard-goods industries still showed losses; aluminum earnings reflected the profit-cutting effects of a 2?-per-lb. price cut in April. Except for small-car-champion American Motors, Detroit's automakers bumped steadily on through their worst year in a decade. Railroads continued to lose. But many another industry reported itself over the worst of the recession, with improving sales and earnings. Steel earnings climbed along with the operating rate at the mills. Most chemicals also rose, demonstrating the effectiveness of cost-control programs...
...living freely. Not all of these stories are good and no one of them is first rate, yet they are pathetically moving because their authors can be felt, and almost seen, each in the tricky situation of one who must tell a necessary truth and may forever lose his right to speak if he tells...