Word: beaten
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Four years later, his party, now confirmed in its conservatism, turned to him like a heliotrope. He was lucky to run against (Eastern, brittle) George Bush for the nomination; he was lucky to be beaten early in Iowa, before the so-called momentum against him was real; he was lucky to have Jimmy Carter as his opponent. On the night of Nov. 4, 1980, just 16 years after he had spoken his mind in behalf of a man too far right to be elected President, the amateur politician who will become 70 in February watched state after state turn...
...read the news today, oh boy. Ten thousand holes . . ." John Lennon's voice pierced the gloom of the Harvard locker room last night. The Crimson had just fallen, 72-45, to a team it defeated last year and might have beaten on a good day this year. Oh boy, indeed...
Then the New Right took on Jim Folsom, who had beaten Democratic Senator Donald Stewart in the primary. An intense ad campaign suggested that Folsom was backed by the Democratic National Committee and therefore supported its stands on ERA, gun control, federal funding of abortions, and gay rights. Not only did Folsom endorse none of those positions, but he insists he took no money from the D.N.C. On Nov. 4, Folsom lost, 48% to 51%, to Denton. The Moral Majority, says Folsom, had "a tremendous effect on my defeat...
...went out for a steak and French fries. Later in the afternoon, he was still intensely hungry, and though his physician advised against it, he ate another steak dinner. The sudden feast after weeks of dieting may have led to the cramps. Said Dr. Nunez: "Roberto wasn't beaten by Sugar Ray Leonard. He was beaten by two sirloin steaks...
...only did Phills have to best the only wrestler who has beaten him this year (in the Trenton Open), he had to defeat him twice in the double-elimination competition. The tough matches came against Mountclair State College's Division III champion, Ed Sopolsio, a 5-ft. 10-in., 295-lb. "fire hydrant," a strong wrestler who far outweighed the 222-lb. Phills. Phills dominated Sopolsio with strong, aggressive wrestling, emphasizing his fluid takedown style, by scores...