Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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BAKER FIELD, NEW YORK--If last year's football records mean anything, the Columbia-Harvard football game should be the only soft spot on the Columbia schedule, a breather between Rutgers, which is out to get the Lions after suffering its lone defeat of last year at their hands, and Yale, which whipped Columbia last fall...
Jaffa's subsequent defeat in the national election rendered him eligible for the regional office in time for Saturday afternoon's caucus. This factor set off an intricate chain of events so complicated as to make the machinations of Tammany Hall appear amateurish. The links of this chain in the order of their forging were...
Operating through a few unions which they control (e.g., fire brigades, electrical workers, bakers & confectioners, vehicle builders, foundry workers), the Commies tried first to defeat a motion condemning unofficial strikes. Pale, shock-haired Communist Abe Cohen of the Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers leaped to the rostrum and attacked the motion as "a challenge to the integrity of the rank & file and an insult to their intelligence...
...Defeat for the Lizards. The most curious spectacle of the congress was portly, white-haired Arthur Deakin, anti-Communist president of the World Federation of Trade Unions, lambasting a Communist resolution in favor of the W.F.T.U. itself. Deakin's presidency represents British labor's hope of rescuing the W.F.T.U. from Red domination. That hope, Deakin roared, has gone glimmering. He said that the W.F.T.U. was becoming a tool of Soviet foreign policy. The congress boomed approval, the tick tack men flickered like lizards along the wall, and the Communist motion was defeated...
Mother's Old Putter. In the six days of match play, many a good golfer fell by the fairwayside. Skee Riegel narrowly missed defeat in the first round by a Sunday golfer "I've never heard of before," then bowed out in the third. By the fifth round, when Willie Turnesa met Marvin ("Bud") Ward, they were the only ex-titleholders left...