Word: beaten
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...81st Congress will have 54 Senators and 224 Representatives (a majority in both houses) who voted for Taft-Hartley. Administration officials, however, expect some changes of heart. A total of 121 Senators and Congressmen who voted for Taft-Hartley were either beaten in the primaries, retired, died or were eliminated on Election...
When the count of the new House of Representatives was completed last week, seven-termer Bertrand Gearhart was at the bottom of the wreckage of 75 Republican seats. He was soundly beaten by a man who had never before run for public office: tall, 47-year-old Cecil White, a cotton rancher who campaigned by radio and in his small airplane...
...news article headlined "Beaten But Not Bowed Politicos Trumpet Retreat", the CRIMSON is guilty of a highly inaccurate description of the post-election status of Harvard's political clubs. What your correspondent completely neglected was the reascendency of the Liberal Union to its traditional position as Harvard's most influential political action group...
...groups to help defeat and anti-labor referenda and elect Truman and Dever, without the undue fanfare and disproportionate publicity that the right and left extremes received. On Nov. 2, the state and nation turned to the "third force," its non-communist left, and the HLU "politicos" neither were "beaten" nor in "retreat", but, on the contrary, quite jubilant and appreciative. . . . Roy Gootenberg...
Purdue is one of the four Big Nine schools that still play Notre Dame. This season, for its opening game against the Irish, the Boilermakers worked up enough steam to press all the pants in South Bend. After playing inspired football all afternoon, Purdue was beaten by one heartbreaking point, 28-27-and hasn't been the same since. Said California's Coach Lynn Waldorf, late of Northwestern: "They not only beat you, but ruin your team [physically and mentally] for the next weekend...