Word: loses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suddenly, on Wednesday afternoon, Chairman-to-Be Church seemed to lose his nerve. Apparently he believed that the White House moves would bring a sizable majority of the committee around to endorsing the sales. They did not; despite his favorable comments earlier, New York's Javits, for example, decided not to budge. Adding up the votes, Church realized that seven legislators, including such unchanging anti-sale Senators as New Jersey's Clifford Case, still opposed the deal. He decided to join them. Said one committee member: "He was frightened by the passion of the pro-Israel speeches." Said...
...Democratic leaders did lose a few votes. The House voted to increase spending for veterans' benefits by $844 million, to a total of $21.3 billion ($1.1 billion more than this year's budget). The House also favored reducing projected revenues by $635 million in case Congress later gives parents tax credits for children enrolled in private schools and colleges...
...some idea of the theory's principles and how they relate to an individual's day-to-day existence. The film opens with a dazzling shot of the sun above the ocean--replete with rich color schemes of oranges, purples, and reds--as a voice-over observes that "we lose our innocence through psychic pollution," which is, "like environmental pollution, an inevitable result of human society." The point is rammed home by a montage of photographs showing various moments of violence and human misery. But this effective cinematic ploy is followed by the enunciation of the guiding tenet underlying...
...Denny McLain lose his contact lenses before the sixth game of the 1968 World Series? (By the way, the only game of the series which the 31-game winner...
...play the melody over and over, and words will just come out of my mouth. When I feel they're good, I write them down." After a while she started going back to the Troubadour, trying out her new material. She also played a tape of Lose Again for Ronstadt, who took six months to decide on the song. "Hey, you know that's real good," Bonoff remembers Ronstadt saying...