Word: lost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...handsome man. He has all the sophistication of the Kennedy-style politicians, but with a pock-marked face, heavy eyebrows, and hair brushed flat against his head, he has none of their beauty. His weakness as a candidate he admits implicitly. "Nixon was the only Republican who could have lost to Humphrey," he said. "Anybody who looks like Nixon can always be beaten...
...case of some doctors, dentists or druggists the City owes as much as $1,000. These people have often been required to take out a bank loan to make up for the revenue they have lost in the payment delay. Councillor Thomas J. Danehy pointed out that in such cases the claimants might be able to sue the City for the interest on such a bank loan...
...very alive and open to new ways and ideas. When he came here from Italy he discovered styrofoam. He sketches in it--styrofoam is well-suited to sketching because it is easy to cut, join, and texture with just a fingernail or scrap of wood. And he modified the lost-wax casting technique to cast directly from styrofoam, and even egg cartons, to bronze. (In lost-wax casting, one puts a refracting material like plaster around a wax shape one wants to reproduce, melts out the wax once the plaster hardens and then pours in molten metal...
...Princeton and Cornell so far out of the race that only one of the two, Princeton, has a shot even at the first division. Some day a better man than I will explain what happened to the Big Red this year; they had the material, but never clicked. Princeton lost a toughie to Harvard and then crumbled before the Dowling machine. The Tigers have enough left, though barely: Princeton 23, Cornell...
REPORTER: "Do you think Brian Dowling will be under unusual pressure because he has never lost a game he's started...