Word: loses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...league's executive secretary is one of those who are so preoccupied with the method that they lose sight of the result...
...converging and diverging solo sounds. Of his own compositions, Gotta Dance proved to be a happy, hopping number marked by the husky noodling of Giuffre's sax. The Train and the River opened with the rhythm of a not-too-express train, only to jump the rails and lose itself by a pleasant riverbank. When Jimmy and the boys took their bows, the audience applauded politely, not quite sure what it had heard...
Back in 1948, the year Czechoslovakia lost its freedom, some of Europe's intellectual Communists got cinders in their starry eyes, but Antonio Giolitti just blinked. To a friend troubled by Soviet tyranny he wrote: "Don't lose your spirit. Remember, liberty is not everything." Slim and younger looking than his 42 years, Antonio Giolitti bears one of Italy's biggest political names. His Liberal grandfather was five times Premier of pre-Mussolini Italy, and it is still remembered that "under Giolitti 100 lire in paper was worth 101 in gold." Young Antonio, brought up under Fascism...
...good paydays. I went down to Texas to fight that kid. Roy Harris, that's his name. It was the first mixed bout in Texas. I knew I was going to lose. I was fighting a white boy, and no colored man is going to beat a white boy in Texas. I hit him and he went down, and I thought, 'Why, this boy can't fight...
...great worry for most airmen is that increasing costs may cause them to lose their profits altogether in the next few years. Since 1938 airline wages have jumped at least 100%; the standard $85,000 DC-3 of 19 years ago is now a $1,800,000 DC-7, and spare parts and equipment to keep it flying have zoomed 27% in the last six months alone. While most other industries have passed their costs on to consumers, the airlines have not. In two decades bus revenues per passenger-mile have gone up 27%, train revenues...