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Word: loses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...move slowly, with its cutting head close to the ground. "Ease it up, Roger. Ease it up," radios Jessie to one of his combine drivers. "You're blowing too much grain out of the back." At only $3 a bushel, farmers can't afford to lose any in the cutting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Montana: Rolling North with the Wheaties | 9/4/1978 | See Source »

Some Jaycees worry that the organization's stand could cost it much of the financial support it has traditionally had from businesses. But unless the Jaycees' executive board overrules him, Pig Man Kennedy promises, chapters that keep their women will lose their charters. Says he: "Bylaws are bylaws...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Oust Women? | 9/4/1978 | See Source »

...Clean Air Act sponsored by Ohio Senator Howard Metzenbaum. This empowers the President, on an EPA recommendation, to force utilities to burn local coal and still meet pollution standards when other measures (like using out-of-state coal) would cause "economic disruption." Whoever finally wins, someone must lose: either electricity users, miners or the living, breathing residents of Ohio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: Confrontation in Ohio | 9/4/1978 | See Source »

Approach #5. The Let's Be Obnoxious Approach. Drink a lot. Try without any style whatsoever to lose you virginity. Get into water fights with kids in the dorm across the way. Buy a lot of Roger Dean posters and put them up in your living room. Cut down your roommates. Throw up a least once. Alienate everyone while you have a good time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Six Approaches | 9/1/1978 | See Source »

...Memorial Hall will rock (?) tonight with the freshman Mixer, one of the most crowded, sweaty, noisy, horny and thoroughly revolting rites of passage you will ever have to endure. Of course, you don't have to go. The place is filled to the gills with people looking to lose their virginity, or whatever, and it can be a real turn-off. Then again, you might fall in love. And remember, classes start on Monday, so get ready to settle down. Have a good week, and if you don't, well, it'll all be over soon...

Author: By Andrew Multer, | Title: Welcome to Freshman Week--How About a Game of Catch? | 9/1/1978 | See Source »

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