Word: loses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other "individualists" coping with the pains of life in a liberal market economy. The lesson of the late 'sixties was that we must surrender these insidious self-conceptions, for without a stronger social glue, without people's sense of themselves as passionate shapers of a common destiny, whole cultures lose the will to live, and all our social scientists' horses and men cannot put Humpty Dumpty together again...
...tell you," Jim Gammil '75 said, pulling up the sleeves of his "Win, Lose or Draw" knit shirt and speaking with a touch of nervousness from his seat in the Royal Roost, insulated against the amplified roar of "Elizabeth Reed," "I didn't think I was going to work for a candidate--I thought I'd work for the Democratic National Committee again this year. But when Jimmy came to Kirkland House last spring, we ended up putting him up for the night. He slept on our fold-down couch. I spent two days with him. And I was sold...
Greene: "I hate to lose. It makes me ugly. You don't want to know me after we lose a game...
Default Rate. In addition, the Government has reinsured student loans of about $4.9 billion guaranteed by 25 states, the District of Columbia and one private nonprofit agency; Washington reimburses the states for 80% of any money they lose paying off defaulted loans. To date, the Government has lost nearly $400 million on the two programs; states have apparently lost almost $47 million more. And the losses are mounting; this year the default rate on student loans guaranteed by Washington is running at a startling...
...even a farce rest only on a pair of falsies? It is true that in the course of Habeas Corpus (which means, appropriately, let's have the body) a couple of sets of real female breasts are fondled and pummeled, and one or two actors lose their trousers, but the evening's focus is on a pair of "the Rubens, made of sensitized Fablon as used on Apollo space missions." The breastworks are delivered to one Connie Wicksteed, who looks so like a choirboy that the errant local curate has fallen in love with her. Connie lives...