Word: loses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after the war, sticking to its conservative coverage and soberly written stories, the Times-Star began to lose ground to the Post, which combined flaring headlines and flamboyant crime stories with solid crusades for clean city government. In 1951 the Post passed the Times-Star in circulation (153,230 v. 150,489). Struggling for survival, the Times-Star twice tried to buy the third and largest paper in town, the morning Enquirer ("Solid Cincinnati Reads the Cincinnati Enquirer"), which has a morning and Sunday monopoly. But in 1956 Scripps-Howard bought control of the Enquirer for $4,059,000 (TIME...
Nasser was born, an assistant postmaster's son, of Egyptian-Arab land-tilling stock in the Upper Nile Valley in 1918, the year the exhausted European colonial powers won a great war but began to lose their world supremacy. Then...
After the last week's Middle East convulsion, the question was not whether Nasser is lost to the West (he was never the West's to lose), but whether he has forfeited the independence of the Arab unity movement-for Arab nationhood has no more desire to be Russia's slave than dependent on the West...
...After rushing out declarations of friendship to Nasser, and more slowly responding to Russia and Red China's offers of recognition, the new rulers began to make cooing noises toward the West-perhaps out of conviction, perhaps out of expediency. Apparently no more anxious than Nuri asSaid to lose oil royalties, they announced that Western interests were in no danger, and throughout all the week, the vast Kirkuk and Mosul oilfields kept pumping and the pipelines kept flowing...
...guidebook and a six-month supply of toilet paper, Sally Jay manages a world-weary yawn even when she feels like yipping for joy. She thanks an Italian seducer who wants to marry her to get a nonexistent dowry. Why? "For restoring my cynicism. I was too young to lose it." Only when she falls in love does she allow herself to lapse into disarming sincerity. "And then, as unexpected as a hidden step, I felt myself actually stumble and fall. And there it was, I was in love with him! As simple as that...