Word: concessioner
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At 11:30 p.m., the pace began to pick up at Drinan headquarters. The results from Waltham, which Linsky had hoped to take, showed Drinan winning by 2000 votes. Immediately after the Waltham returns were posted, McGovern launched into his concession speech and everyone turned toward the television sets. The...
was an evening bereft of joy. Early returns showed its candidate running behind in areas where he had assumed widespread support, and its enthusiasm, dampened by the inauspiciousness of the early returns, ebbed steadily as the evening wore on. Kerry remained in seclusion most of the night and his absence...
When the smoke from the fighting at the ballot boxes had cleared, a quietly jubilant Pell stopped in front of a throng of a thousand supporters and well-wishers to announce he had just received the concession of John Chafee. Pell had won by over 32,000 votes, more than...
Kerry, who had been is the lead for most of the campaign but was hurt badly by the late withdrawal of Independent Roger Durkin, made a sour concession speech blaming "the politics of fear" for his defeat.
Harvard Student Agencies moved one step closer yesterday to selling condoms and vaginal foams at its concession stand in the Freshman Union.