Word: losing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...More desperately, "I'm in deep shit. I have a paper due six days ago." Someone who probably turned in that paper, as well as several more, could find only enough words to scribble "if I write one more paper. I am going to lose...
With babies now legal commodities, the business of baby selling boomed nationally. Congress decided to abandon the clumsy old-fashioned monetary system in favor of straight baby trade. Gold prices fluctuated wildy, but a baby's worth was always assured because of its strange appearance that caused people to lose their minds in happiness...
...definitely hurts to lose Billy as a competitor," Fish continued. "A unit can't function at its best when it has an internal disagreement. Quite obviously it's going to hurt to lose a player like Billy...
Back in the Eight from last year's varsity are the stern pair of seniors George Hunnewell at stroke and Rich Kennelly at seven. Moving up form the JV which didn't lose all last year until it faced the Harvard freshmen at Henley, are Captain Steve Wayne at four, Kevin Cameron at two, and Claude Sirlin at five. Varsity recruits from that extraordinary '86 freshman boat include six-man Jack Rusher, three-man Donald Fawcett, and Phillip Schuller...
Once Women's Studies has gained similar acceptance, it will lose its current self-consciousness and with it some of the excesses that have suffered well-deserved parody. It still remains to explore the far more interesting questions of women's ill-acknowledged contributions to past scholarship and their unsung role in shaping history...