Word: loses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Randolph read to the President a nine-point demand for executive programs ranging from a White House conference between Negro and Southern leaders, to handing out special aid to schools that might lose state funds under Southern anti-integration statutes, to stiffer Justice Department action on cases where Negroes have been denied voting rights...
...alarms were real: the West could indeed lose its oldest and most strategic lodgment point in the Arab Middle East, and defeat there would make precarious the fortunes of those Arab leaders in Iraq and Jordan who had identified themselves with the West. The question was not whether the survival of Lebanon is important; it is. The question was how best to save it from the double-headed threat of Nasserism and Communism, both working against the West, though not necessarily for common ends.* To force Lebanon into a choice of who is for Chamoun, v. who is for Nasser...
Conservative Catholics frowned; rank and file Protestants, reluctant to attract attention, kept silent; wealthy Jews retreated. But Father Cucchetti, flanked by Rabbi Schlesinger and Methodist Minister Adam Sosa, did not lose zeal. "The three musketeers," as supporters tagged them, worked on their congregations. The rabbi persuaded two of his richest members to finance the movement; the Protestant pastor got backing from the U.S. National Conference of Christians and Jews; the priest managed to keep stodgy superiors from getting involved...
...possible for a nightclub to lose money with famed Ecdysiast Sherry Britton stripping to bugle beads and pearls, and an undraped cutie splashing in a giant champagne glass? Answer: Yes, the way the nightclub business is going these nights. As the trade weekly Variety would put it: To get off the nut (i.e., earn back the investment) in a bigtime nitery operation now, a boniface has to do boffo biz seven nights a week, and even then he may wind up flivving. Reason: the top-liners are slugging the spots for too much coin. The latest of the show bizites...
...such as frostings, sandwich spreads, sauces and syrups. Until now, aerosol foods have been slowed by the fact that the liquid gases used in nonfood products have been ruled out by the Food and Drug Administration. (Compressed gases are now in use in a few food products but often lose their pressure before the food is exhausted, though recently developed compressed nitrogen shows promise of whipping the problem...