Word: defeated
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...doorstep, and even perhaps ready to grant that Britain currently is in no position to assert its own will in the Middle East. Suffering from the effects at home of the blocked canal and fearing the loss of most of its influence in the area-a defeat underlined last week by the agreement ending the 35-year-old relationship with Jordan and abandonment of its bases and installations there-Britain can only urge that the U.S. do what the British would like to see done, i.e., boycott the reopened Suez canal if Nasser makes any difficulty about tolls or free...
...defeat by Mrs. Nearing left him wondering what to do with the remainder of his sudden fame. In any case, he intends to stay at Columbia. But he has been deluged with outside offers from radio, TV and Hollywood, now needs an agent to handle the requests. Van Doren claims to have made no commitments about his future in show business other than to sign up for the first program of NBC Radio's revival of Conversation on March 21, which will be moderated by his good friend Critic Clifton Fadiman. What does Van Doren plan to charge...
Since the common psycho-sclerotic spends his days "mouthing negativisms" and cultivating "defeat tendencies," Stay Alive's pages are alive with Before-And-After-Positive-Thinking testimonials. There is the case of the too-busy industrialist who came on hard times. To pay for groceries the man and his wife ("almost strangers to each other") picked blueberries "on opposite sides of a high bush." With "positive thinking" all came right in the end ("We found God and each other in a blueberry patch"). A disgruntled dining-car waiter was about ready to crown some of his patrons with...
...proven that he is one of the top intercollegiate players. He has lost but one match for the Crimson over the past two years and was the only player to take a game from Navy's John Griffiths in the Intercollegiates at M.I.T., until Griffiths ran into Heckscher and defeat in the finals...
Radcliffe's only other defeat in scheduled play this year was a 40-37 loss at St. Regis College, where the team faced not only tough opposition, but a cheering section complete with six cheerleaders. "Positively appalling," one Annex player noted...