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Word: loses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dominant note" in the U.S. social climate, said Nye, is fear-"fear that you will fall behind in the display of ostentatious personal expenditure, fear that dandruff or body odor might lose you your sweetheart, fear of this, fear of that, fear for your job, fear that you might be thought to hold views repugnant to your employer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: In Nye's Eyes | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

...simply cannot expect kids of those ages to determine the sort of education they need, unless they have some guidance. If this nation is not to degenerate intellectually and to lose its strength for daily life and defense against our enemies, the taxpayers, the school boards, the Parent-Teacher Associations had better wake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: What Price Life Adjustment? | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

...Morton Wishengrad) is that once-or-twice-a-season sort of play that is unsuccessful but "interesting." It introduces to Broadway a playwright who is almost struttingly grim, carrying larger-sized luggage than he can fill; but who seems altogether resolved to go his own way, even if he lose his way in the process. Laid in a turn-of-the-century Manhattan tenement, The Rope Dancers is a stubbornly harsh story of a lacerated family. Hard-working Margaret Hyland is a rigid, arrogant, unappeasably bitter woman with a lazy, feckless would-be writer of a husband (Art Carney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Dec. 2, 1957 | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

...State Constitutional Amendment No. 18, a plan to consider abolishing Macon County (now 84% Negro) by dividing its land among five neighboring counties. A poll by the Montgomery Advertiser indicated that Macon County is in favor of the abolition amendment. If the rest of the state agrees, Tuskegee will lose its position and resulting trade as the county seat. "You find the people of many cities trying to build, but few trying to destroy themselves," said Professor Gomillion last week. "We have about reached the point of no return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALABAMA: Death of a Town | 11/25/1957 | See Source »

...fragile melancholy of tinkling temple bells. A Hindu youth claims his veiled bride, and in the first flush of passion feels a hot tear on his hand as the girl trembles beside him, fearful and liquid-eyed as a doe he once killed. A simple, doting peasant couple lose their only son to the mysterious war of the white men's raj and begin to lose their health, sanity and land as well. Then they are told to apply for equally mysterious pension checks, thus making their son the poignantly ironic staff of their old age. The title tale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mem-Sahib's Vision | 11/25/1957 | See Source »

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