Word: loses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lose Face. Israeli fears were heightened by an announcement last week that Syria and Iraq had agreed to defuse their own border tensions. That would mean that at least one of Syria's two divisions on the Iraqi border could be redeployed closer to Israel. The Israelis were also concerned about reports that Syria was moving antiaircraft missiles into Lebanon. Israel considered that a threat, since no planes have been involved in a major way in the Lebanese fighting. Both Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Ambassador to Israel Malcolm Toon cautioned Israeli officials not to push Damascus...
...even be argued that betting, within reason, has redeeming social value. Felicia Campbell, a University of Nevada behaviorist who earned her Ph.D. with a thesis on "Gambling Mythologies and Typologies" (and was once married to a croupier), insists that gambling permits many people?especially the elderly?to "lose themselves in the action of the moment." She adds: "Even though the final result is often negative, it's a positive impulse. The peak experience is almost more important than winning. When he grabs the dice, a blue-collar worker is in control of his destiny. For the businessman, gambling...
...healthy recognition of reality, one of society's periodic and necessary adjustments of its laws to changing mores and unchanging human nature. Almost by definition, such evolutions solve some problems and create others. It is far too early to wager on whether the U.S. will win or lose as gambling goes legit ? but anyone who hankers to bet on it can surely find a taker...
Anyone could misplace one refrigerator, or even two or three if they were counter size. But it takes a professional to lose 200, and Harvard Student Agencies (HSA) officials revealed last week that they had done just that...
...thoughts, ordinarily ice, turn to water when I entertain political ideas (which do not entertain me). This is bad enough. But I frown when I must mingle with these unwelcome guests; words impressed into public roles are stained with brutality, lose their invisibilities, and are no longer parts of the actual brain. So I must divert attention from my innocent poem; but then I am hopelessly confused how to accomplish my other purpose...