Word: loses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some students have been placed on probation following Sunday's disturbance in the Yard, with the individual punishment determined by the offense. Scholarship students placed on probation will lose their scholarships. Von Stade indicated that all students caught breaking College regulations would be brought before the Dean's office...
Chances are that Fanfani is indeed sweating. Under Italy's new electoral law-a complex melange of straight and proportional representation-the Communists and Christian Democrats will have to increase their ballot by between 500,000 and 1,000,000 votes in order not to lose parliamentary seats. By contrast, an increase of only 400,000 votes-half what they polled in the last election-could double the number of Liberal seats in the Chamber of Deputies...
Neither scholar, mnemonic freak nor gambler, Elfrida has hit the top in what is still the most demanding and sophisticated of all quiz shows. She still could lose all if (very unlikely) she tied in 14 games and then crashed in a 21-0 defeat. Boning up for Twenty One ever since she got on its stand-by list last July ("I read atlases, memorizing capitals, rivers, all kinds of things"), Elfrida left her well-paid job as personnel manager of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants when she really got rolling on the show...
Coach Joe Brown predicted that the varsity race would be tight--a few feet either way "If we win this one by a lot, we should go undefeated for the rest of the year; if we lose by a large amount, things would look very bad. But I expect the race will be very close...
...World War II, the U.S. signed at least 28 long-term purchase contracts for nickel, now is trying to wiggle out of every one of them, because there is a nickel glut. The U.S. estimates that it has lost $31 million by paying premium prices for nickel, stands to lose $124 million if it honors all its contracts...