Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week everybody in the C.I.O.'s United Packinghouse Workers union knew that its two-month strike against the Big Four packers (Swift, Armour, Cudahy and Wilson) was a lost cause. Almost everybody knew that the union's leaders were ready to admit defeat. From Chicago a call went out for local leaders to come and discuss surrender terms...
Forty-six members of the University's Faculty have signed a statement urging defeat of the Mundt-Nixon anti-Communist Bill, which passed the House of Representatives by a 319 to 58 vote Wednesday. The bill now goes to the Senate, where it is expected to face heavy sledding...
...restricting the activities of Communists. Its vague and loose phraseology, however, indicates that it threatens the expression of liberal and progressive thought. Its enactment would strike a serious blow at our cherished rights of free expression. We deplore this attempt to restrict American freedoms and urge Congress to defeat the Mundt-Nixon Bill...
Palestine's Arabs had little time to think about a new government. One Arab leader estimated that 200,000 of his countrymen had already fled the country. To save themselves from complete defeat, Arabs looked for help across the Jordan to King Abdullah...
This latter race, in all probability, will see Navy and Penn, (both out for revenge), Princeton, (whose 12-inch defeat hardly relegates it to a second-class naval power), Yale, and Syracuse (which lost to Cornell by about the same dis- tance as did Harvard), all in contention against the Crimson...