Word: loses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...convict adulterers, four witnesses must be found to testify that they saw the illicit act performed. Moreover, there are loopholes in the law and liberal as well as strict interpretations of it. For example, a thief can lose his hand only if he steals "in a just society"; the provision has been used by Islamic courts to spare men who steal because they are poor and have no other means to feed their families...
After watching their opponent's shell crash into a sailboat and send two sailors sprawling into the Charles, the Radcliffe lightweight crew survived a strong tailwind, sleet, an abbreviated course, a busted rigger and numbing cold only to lose narrowly to the UNH heavyweight varsity Saturday morning...
Both crews went on to lose to Yale, and for the first time in history, the Radcliffe varsity failed to make the finals in the Eastern Sprints. Luckily for the women in black, the finals they didn't make were never held due to unrowable conditions in Pittsfield. Mass.. but the memory of that awful heat still lingers...
...sweep of Navy over the weekend, and then got that big win from (Jim) Keyte yesterday, and I guess we were just a little tired today. I know I was. But hey, the mark of the good team is that it can win the games it should never lose...
...inflation can afford to do so. Galbraith says, "One must surely rejoice in the discovery of a remedy for poverty where no one, those involved or those affected, can, in the fullness of time, be deemed to have lost." One must also surely wonder how many people will lose before time reaches its "fullness...