Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Joining other senior Royal Air Force brass in a submachine-gun target match, Britain's sporting Chief of Air Staff Sir Dermot Boyle sprayed much lead to little avail, wound up 21st in an eagle-eyed field of 22 officers. He took his crushing defeat stoically: "Either I'm a very bad shot or there's a great deal of insubordination in the air force...
Righthander Face is the chief reason the Pirates are still in the National League pennant race. He has won ten without a defeat, saved four more games for other Pittsburgh pitchers. In fact, he has not lost a game since May 30, 1958. So far this season, Face is the major leagues' winningest pitcher. At week's end his earned-run average was a stylish 1.12. In 40⅓ innings, he had walked only seven batters, struck...
...disputatious, 13th century Buddhist holy man, Nichiren's criticisms of other sects led to frequent persecution. He lived in the streets and preached to the poor, reportedly foretold the Mongol invasion of Japan and its defeat, was famed for his litany: "I shall be the pillar of Japan. I shall be the eye of Japan, and I shall be the great vessel of Japan." He died in Tokyo...
...months afterward, Cannon seemed to accept the defeat. Then, late last April, the name of State Representative Bedford Black vanished from the news columns of the Kannapolis daily Independent (circ. 10,950). Cannon owns the Independent building and the ground it stands on, and his son-in-law owns a controlling interest in the paper...
...weapons with which the old French National Assembly battered the 24 postwar Cabinets of the preDe Gaulle Fourth Republic into helplessness and defeat, the favorite by far was the deadly instrument of interpellations (questions in debate). The technique was to pop a question at a minister, then toss in a series of motions, and demand a debate and a vote on every single one of them. As perfected in the 1952 debate that stymied the Tunisian reform program of Premier Pinay's government, this method of ministerial massacre has been known ever since as " Tunisification...