Word: defeat
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...late 1955, having failed to defeat Herbert Kohler through picketing his plant and harassing his workers, Reuther & Co., with Kohler-like Germanic stubbornness, undertook a nationwide boycott of Kohler products. Today U.A.W. has more than a dozen full-time employees scattered around the U.S. who do nothing but urge plumbers, contractors, municipal officials, to boycott Kohler fixtures. Under union pressure, governing bodies in Boston, Los Angeles County and a scattering of small towns have passed resolutions against installing Kohler products in municipal building projects. U.A.WT. insists that all this is hurting Kohler badly. The family-owned Kohler Co. claims...
...manned, and the launching of bombers with hydrogen bombs, which have to be manned." He added: "If Russia, with her incomparably larger forces, were to launch an all-out attack, then the Western Allies would have the choice of striking back with nuclear weapons or submitting to defeat and occupation." The Victory-for-Socialism Laborites leaped to their feet shouting "Suicide." Sandys replied by quoting the words of Clement Attlee, uttered when he led the Labor Opposition three years ago: "It is no use telling the Russians that we would not be the first to use a hydrogen bomb...
...Labor, the split in the party's ranks boded ill just at a time when virtually every poll showed them well ahead of the Tories in popularity. They have not forgotten that a bitter division on defense policy sent the party to defeat in the 1951 and 1955 elections. Then it was Nye Bevan who led the divisive revolt against German rearmament. Day after last week's debate, the Labor Executive Committee, including "Shadow Foreign Minister" Nye Bevan, summoned leaders of the Victory-for-Socialism group to answer for their "activities...
...Yale this afternoon at New Haven, where, for the ninth consecutive year, it will attempt to move out of second place in the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League, and for the ninth consecutive year it will remain in second place. The Crimson simply does not have the team strength to defeat the Elis; in fact, the varsity will find it extremely difficult to win more than 19 points...
...superb team, undoubtedly the best in the East, but which will probably not win the NCAA championships at the end of the month. In the Eastern Intercollegiate League they are overwhelmingly powerful, having little difficulty trouncing both weak teams and strong ones like Army, Dartmouth, and they will decisively defeat the varsity this afternoon...