Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spite of the rain and the defeat of the home team in its last game of the season, the spirits of several thousand Williams reunion-bound alumni did not suffer, since most left before the end of the third inning. The pageantry and parading (including the jazz band of '34 and a bicycle-built-for-six manned by the class of '39) failed to inspire the Williams, squad, which committed five errors and managed only six hits off the pitching of Byron Johnson...
...done it under almost impossible circumstances. He took over the leadership job after the worst Republican defeat since the sunflower campaign of Kansas' Alf Landon went to seed in 1936. Dwight Eisenhower, barred from seeking a third term, looked like lame-duck soup to the lopsided Democratic majority in Congress. House and Senate Republicans were fighting among themselves, seemed incapable of forming a line of defense against the war-dancing Democrats...
ILLINOIS' Adlai Stevenson has tried twice and lost-hugely-twice. His is an old face of defeat-and what is more, neither Truman nor Rayburn has much personal...
...from the finish line, then came on with a late burst to win by a scant 4 ft. in the 2,000-meter-sprint regatta of the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges on Lake Carnegie at Princeton, N.J. A length behind the leaders, Yale finished third-its first rowing defeat since...
...Program is supposed to end at Commencement, and, although money-raisers seldom admit defeat, no one seriously expects the University to haul in a million a day over the next three weeks...