Word: lossing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With the core of its squad including several freshmen, inexperience seemed a possible explanation for the surprise loss to B.C. Harvard, however, dismissed any ideas that nerves and lack of tournament play was a factor...
...think that the loss was so much us playing poorly," Wheaton said. "We created chances and played well, we just didn't finish...
Keep in mind that I have just spilled a lot of ink about one loss (good thing I'm not the beat writer for the 1-7 New Orleans Saints). I can do that because this team will not lose often, and the road to this year's national championship will still go through Cambridge...
Then there was Omar Bongo, another former client, who has been the President of the oil-rich West African nation of Gabon since 1967. When Citi belatedly got around to working up his customer profile, officials were at a loss to explain the origin of more than $100 million held in Bongo's accounts. Then a helpful Bongo subordinate told the bank that the President regularly receives 8.5% of the country's budget as an allowance. Bank officials accepted this explanation, although no such provision existed in Gabon's budget...
Looking is not seeing," writes Henry Grunwald in Twilight (Knopf; 130 pages; $20), and often we really see something only when it is about to leave us. For Grunwald, the beginning of such a loss came seven years ago, when a routine examination revealed that he was legally blind in his left eye and was one of roughly 15 million Americans who suffer from macular degeneration, a gradual diminishing of eyesight (often caused by age) for which there is no cure...