Word: loses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would like to thank Marc J. Ambinder for his article in The Crimson (Opinion, Dec. 6) about the fallen firefighters in Worcester. As a firefighter myself, it is very hard to witness such a tragedy unfold as we did last Friday night. It is an unspeakable tragedy to lose one firefighter, let alone six as we did Friday, or 14 as we did five years ago on Storm King Mountain in Colorado...
...Firefighters are not action movie heroes, throwing ourselves indiscriminately into walls of advancing flame. We respect each fire, know its force and know when it is time to retreat. Occasionally we miscalculate, a flaw of our human nature, and that sometimes means fire will claim a victim. When we lose brothers to fire, we all realize that any one of us could have fallen just as easily, and then we renew our vows to fight fire as safely...
...They're going to lose momentum," he says, stepping outside Gnomon's into the morning drizzle. "If somebody starts too early on, they're old news by the time the election rolls around...their stuff will fade into the background...
Should Cambridge lose power, for example, all locks will revert to the locked position. The system will then run for a time on batteries, but it can't function on back-up power indefinitely...
...After we move into our empty rooms, as the year progresses and the trees lose their leaves, something inside us aches to be somewhere else than in front of our computers writing about Proust. Maybe we'd like to be bathing with mermaids, chilling with the Hephalumps. These rooms serve as relaxation theme parks, like the fantasy worlds we created for ourselves under our blankets in the corners of first grade playgrounds. These elaborate flowing waterfalls and bunk bed caves are just modern forts, little escapes from the coldness of mass-produced furniture and rationally-distributed wall putty...