Word: losee
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...loaded some clubs with overpriced players,* and 2) the re-election of Commissioner Chandler to his $65,000-a-year job. Under the rules, Happy needed twelve votes out of a total 16, and with no candidate running against him he didn't see how he could lose...
Another danger of high-altitude flying is "anoxia" (lack of oxygen). If a pressurized plane should suddenly lose its air at 40,000 ft., the passengers, according to Swearingen, would lose consciousness in seven seconds, die in 45 seconds. Loss of pressure at 40,000 ft., said a CAA man, "is a complete catastrophe-like a wing falling...
...Freshmen Lose...
Skinless but Normal. With little to lose in Gaines's case, Dr. Whitelaw decided the time had come to play a hunch. He ordered all other medication stopped. Then he began injecting his patient at six-hour intervals with 20-milligram shots of ACTH, the new synthetic hormone (TIME, April 10). Within five days the patient's most dangerous symptoms had vanished. He was resting comfortably, "a normal man," in the words of one doctor, "only without much skin...
...western New York State, 78 clergymen of a dozen Protestant denominations issued a plea against use of the bomb "lest we lose all claim to God's mercy by permitting the destruction of the innocent as well as the guilty...