Word: beaten
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...could not have avoided an internal battle next year after a special party conference in January establishes a new electoral college to choose the party leader. The college will be dominated by the left-wing local parties and powerful unions. Running under the new rules, Healey might have been beaten by the divisive champion of the party's radical left, M.P. Tony Benn. As it is, the popular Foot is expected to preempt House challenge and sail through vigor the next leadership election virtually unopposed. If he becomes Prime Minister any time soon, the relationship between Washington and London...
...voters in his district sounded suspiciously like the state sales tax that they had repeatedly rejected in referendums. In addition, while Ullman clambered up the rungs of power on Capitol Hill, he visited his home folks too infrequently. Despite his late disavowal of the tax proposal, he was narrowly beaten by Denny Smith, 42, son of a former Oregon Governor and the publisher of 15 newspapers. Ullman plans to demand a recount...
...firewood," recalls Oum Soum, 62, deputy director of Phnom-Penh's Buddhist Institute. "Wats not destroyed became fertilizer warehouses." Bonzes were denounced as "parasites." The lucky ones were merely driven from their temples and into the fields. Of 80,000 Cambodian monks, 50,000 were murdered-often beaten to death-during the three years of Pol Pot's savage rule...
...deserted him, Catholics, Jews and liberals too. And then there was George McGovern, a Senator for two decades and once a presidential candidate who stood firmly opposed to the slaughter of Vietnam, who put forward a much-ridiculed plan to guarantee a small income for all Americans. McGovern was beaten badly by Jim Abdnor, for whom "slaughter" means instead federally funded abortion, who promised to cut taxes instead of supporting those "too lazy to work." With Carter and McGovern went Frank Church, John Culver '54, and Birch Bayh. Here in Massachusetts, the people overwhelmingly approved a huge reduction in local...
...people have to worry about. Ben Flesh, the hero of The Franchiser (1976), learns in Rapid City, S. Dak., that he has multiple sclerosis. He worries about this and the effect of a current heat wave on his local business: "The Mister Softees are all melted. The Lord has beaten the Mister Softees back into yogurt cultures." And Elkin has been traveling progressively farther out; The Living End (1979) offers a knee-slapping look at death and eternal damnation...