Word: beating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would lose to either Ford or Ronald Reagan if a presidential election were held now. The nationwide sampling of 1,498 voters gave Ford a 48%-to-43% lead, while Reagan squeaked by 47% to 46%. Among Democrats, moreover, Ted Kennedy would swamp Carter, 60% to 35% (and would beat the two Republicans handily as well). California's Jerry Brown? Nowhere. Ford would defeat Brown, 52% to 38%; Reagan would stop his successor in Sacramento, 52% to 40%. Even Carter clobbers Brown among Democrats...
Hardly had the Senate war ended before the peacemaking began. Top White House officials ordered that there be no gloating over the victory. Said Chief Aide Hamilton Jordan: "We take pleasure in winning but not in beating the group of friends that we had to beat." Immediately after the vote, Carter, Vance, Vice President Fritz Mondale and a squad of advisers began phoning scores of Jewish leaders to reassure them of U.S. support for Israel's security. Pledged Mondale later, at a dinner in New York of the American Jewish Committee: "Military assistance to Israel will continue regardless...
...Blue Hens pushed around their only run during a steady drizzle in the third inning. Fleet-footed centerfielder Gary Gehman barely beat out an infield single, stole second and third, and came home when Crimson catcher Chuck Marshall's peg skipped past Rick Pearce into left field...
...just kicked the ball around today, and we just got beat," Park said afterward. And that was about all that was left to say on a day that was, in a word, pitiful...
...beat them they did not, and Harvard's hopes for a strong NCAA showing now rest on Lundy's singles efforts...