Word: loses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...intangible things that people manage to lose at parties, which I have lost over three and a half years in just such rooms, did not bury themselves in our bags: not the chunks of innocence chipped away in degraded corners, the frustration over an intractable date, or the stinking feromones of pretension that those in fine clothes puffed from cigars or had daubed beneath their ears and about their necks. Those were the things you had sense during the party; you had seen the exasperation patterned across a friend's face, whiffed the perfume from an aloof Wellesley woman(wearing...
...scrums" and "line outs" in which teammates lock arms and heads and glare at their opponents waiting for the squashed football to be tossed into their midst. And then the uninformed sees, to his horror, 15 or so players throw themselves into a rumble. But the ball always squirts lose from somewhere under that mass of humanity...
Eighteen buildings in the Yard, including all but one Yard dormitory, will lose their hot water for three hours Thursday morning and all day March 30 and 31 due to maintenance work, a Buildings and Grounds official said yesterday...
Green Bugs. Colorado expects to lose 70% of its winter wheat crop, and parts of Oklahoma anticipate a two-thirds decline in this year's harvest. Other sections are also suffering. In parts of the once lush wheat-growing belt that extends from New Mexico and Texas into Kansas and Iowa, the wheat shoots are stunted. Many farmers are choosing to sacrifice their crops in an effort to save the topsoil. By plowing their fields to turn the silt beneath less fragile clods and by planting soil-gripping crops, the farmers hope to conserve their valuable topsoil that otherwise...
...corporate reshuffle, however, brought to the presidency Frederick S. Pierce, 42, a 20-year ABC veteran with a background in research and advertising sales. Pierce, an unflappable backroom boy who had succeeded in every department, started scheduling for the fall with the courage of a man with little to lose. ABC'S strongest shows were tough cops-and-robbers epics (Streets of San Francisco, Baretta, S.W.A.T.). They could only be aired after the "family hour," from 8 to 9 p.m., when the networks schedule their hottest shows, usually comedies, hoping to capture an audience for the entire evening. Gambling...