Word: loses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington's budget squabble has had more to lose than Vice President Richard Milhous Nixon. No one could hang out a better excuse for sidestepping the issue. But rather than dodge, Nixon has dived head-on into the battle, and in the process has been more than willing to cut loose whatever conservative Republican ties he had. Waiting to pick up what Nixon casts off is a conservative champion named William Fife Knowland, the Old Guard's candidate for President in 1960. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Nixon on the Line and Knowland at the Ready...
This week, while he prepared for the regional playoffs with Arizona and a probable trip to the collegiate world series in Omaha, Bibb Falk worried less that he might lose a game than that he might lose most of his team to his mortal enemies. "They say one thing and do something else," he foamed. "They're all for themselves and don't give a damn about minors or colleges. The trouble with general managers is that they never went to college. They cheat on bonuses, cheat on anything. They need another Judge Landis in baseball to clean...
...body. In the pre-atomic past the human species kept ahead of this damage, but many scientists are worried about new ' sources of radiation, such as medical and dental X rays, "hot labs" and nuclear reactors. They fear that a point may come when the human species will lose its struggle with radiation and begin to deteriorate...
...same coin in his commentary on Ezra Pound's almost circle of order, his "introvert sestina." One wonders whether the subject is worth the bother. Hall's joke provides its own criticism--"When we are bound to a tedious conversation,/We pay attention to the words themselves/Until they lose their sense.." Roger Moore's whimsical dealings with a similar subject turn out to be fun, but that is all. James Reiger's piece on the fall of the Civitas (of Troy or of God?) may be intended as humorous, but the subject does not strike one as very funny. Whatever...
...Britain, the courts still tend to view defamatory or contemptuous statements by newspapers more gravely than their American counterparts. British newspapers seldom win a libel suit; U.S. papers win at least as many as they lose. In the U.S., keyhole-peeping columnists are rarely sued for running exaggerated or even fabricated accounts of celebrities' loves and lapses. But privacy-proud Englishmen do not treat unfavorable stories as unworthy of notice-not to the extent of refraining from a promising libel suit...