Word: beaten
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...1870s, before modern marketing and packaging had been developed, Ralph Waldo Emerson prophesied: "If a man write a better book, preach a better sermon or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door...
After his first drubbing by Jimmy Carter, in Iowa's Democratic caucuses, Ted Kennedy ordered a speechwriter to draft a statement of withdrawal from the presidential race. But the Senator soon had second thoughts and filed the speech away. Since then he has been beaten three more times-in Maine, Minnesota and, most embarrassingly, in his own backyard of New Hampshire. Yet because he got more New Hampshire votes than Carter did in 1976.* Kennedy thrust out a fist and made a peculiar boast: "Tonight we are claiming victory." And he later added...
...burning dollar bills. The officers, Katherine Perkins, 35, and Glenda Rudolph, 26, radioed for help and tried to persuade the man to come along quietly. Before they could make the arrest. Sergeant Paul Janness, 31, arrived. The naked man went berserk, flailing away at the policeman. Janness was badly beaten, and claimed that the two policewomen failed to come to his aid. When witnesses agreed, Perkins and Rudolph were charged with cowardice...
...briefly in spontaneous, childlike gladness. The very innocence of the conquest made it sweetly uncomplicated and morally unimpeachable. The nation indulged in small orgies of flag waving and anthem singing. At a Stop & Shop supermarket in Cambridge, Mass., the p.a. system suddenly blurted that the U.S. hockey team had beaten the Soviets. The store erupted as bags of cookies, paper towels and anything else handy were tossed into the air with pandemonious cheering. One psychiatrist reported his patients' telling him how, for days, tears shot to their eyes when they thought of those American boys...
...victory was not to be. The hoopsters, who had beaten Princeton earlier in the season by a convincing 24-point margin, stood at the receiving end of a 75-54 whitewashing at the hands of the ruthless Tigers...