Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lloyd I. Rudolph, instructor in Government, yesterday expressed regret over Rep. Joe Martin's 74-70 defeat at the hands of his Republican House colleagues. "I thought Martin's picture on the front page of the Times looked like Pagliacci," Rudolph said...
PROVIDENCE, Jan. 5--Brown ran off nine straight points in overtime here tonight to defeat the varsity quintet, 68 to 63. The game, fast and tense throughout as neither team ever led by more than seven points, evened the season record of both squads at five wins and five losses...
...such problems, the kind that reduced every leader of the Fourth Republic to fatalistic acceptance of eventual defeat, provide a kind of elation to a man of De Gaulle's temperament. "France," he wrote in his memoirs, "is not really herself unless in the front rank. Only vast enterprises are capable of counterbalancing the ferments of dispersal which are inherent in her people." As for himself, De Gaulle has never abandoned the position he took a quarter of a century ago: "Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp on action, takes...
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