Word: defeat
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During John McCain's gracious concession speech, he had to pause to quiet his supporters as they booed at the mention of Obama's name. If McCain had conducted his campaign with the grace and honor he showed in defeat instead of stirring up the worst instincts among his party's right-wing base, the outcome of the election might have been different. Bernadette Pruitt, WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS...
Coming into the game, Clarkson was ranked No. 16 and had previously tied the No. 1 team in the country, Colorado College, twice...At the end of the game a Clarkson bagpipe player added humiliation to defeat as he played a funeral march as the fans filed out of the arena...
During John McCain's gracious concession speech, he had to pause to quiet his supporters as they booed at the mention of Obama's name. If McCain had conducted his campaign with the grace and honor he showed in defeat instead of stirring up the worst instincts among his party's right-wing base, the outcome of the election might have been different. Bernadette Pruitt, WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS
...lived in the fantasy world created by so-called “experts,” right now everybody would be talking about how President-elect Hillary Clinton, fresh off her defeat of Mitt Romney, was going to throw out the first pitch at the World Series champion Chicago Cubs’ first home game next season...
...have projected a laid-back, hippie vibe. They’ve loped around campus in faded jeans, sporting stubble and shocks of long hair. Purely on image, it would be harder to get farther away from the student council Type-A suit. Chris was upbeat about his defeat, ever, he said, the “cock-eyed optimist.” “I’m not really surprised that I lost, I lost the first three elections of my high school, too. I understand that certain things work in college, certain things don?...