Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain's six-girl Wightman Cup tennis team, which sometimes outshone the U.S. girls in looks but not in form, and went to defeat for the 13th consecutive time, at Haverford, Pa.'s Merion Cricket Club...
...other of Ohio's big industrial counties. In the next 13 weeks he would cover some 84 more, appearing in the Senate only for important votes. The forthright and worried Taft made no secret of the reason for this activity. Confronted with an extraordinarily violent opposition, he faced defeat for reelection...
...Cost What It Will." Organized labor was out to punish him for being the author of the Taft-Hartley Act and leader of the forces that blocked its repeal. "Cost what it will," the A.F.L.'s William Green had vowed, "we are going to bring about the defeat of the outstandingly reprehensible Senator Taft." A.F.L. and C.I.O. leaders were prepared to spend millions (collected in $1 and $2 rank & file assessments) to defeat him. He had angered...
Taft himself had to admit the possibility; that was why he was in Ohio this week, worried and working. Taft's defeat could well mark the end for years to come of any coherent opposition to the Fair Deal. "And if he wins," hazarded an Ohio newspaper, editor, "he'll be the next Republican presidential candidate." It was obviously too soon for such talk, though it would not down. At least, with Taft, the G.O.P. would be able-in fact forced -to make a frontal attack on all those issues which were slicked over and evaded...
...moment); he also suffered from blunders-his own and those of the men who had trained him. American phrases had crept into his speech, and his conversation had grown self-conscious and artificial. But he was principally separated from the people around him because he no longer shared their defeat or their hopes, the undercurrent of panic, their confusion, their bitterness, or their dull conviction that the retreat of the German army would be stopped...