Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson Rugby Club, still cherishing hopes of finishing at the top of the league, suffered a final, decisive defeat at the hands of a tough, well-balanced Princeton team Saturday...
...while Chute, at number ten, outlasted Toby Worth, 4-6, 6-4, 6-2. Princeton picked up its only singles wins at seven and eight, where John Cartier beat Jim Cameron, 3-6, 6-4, 7-5, and Kit Huttig used his tremendous overhead shot to defeat Laurie Pratt...
...tore off the kind of statement that has become the bane of 1) his friends, 2) his own presidential hopes, and 3) his state. The Republicans, he stormed, had voted for "payless paydays . . . cutting off welfare funds . . . the destruction of our universities." Old Guard Republicans, who engineered the senate defeat, were indeed rather pleased at the prospect of once popular Democrat Williams standing before the nation as a flat-broke Governor. But responsible figures in business, labor and press were getting increasingly concerned that, in all the wild swinging, Michigan was getting a black eye that would not soon heal...
...picking up some gems, a nightmarish wave of violence washes over the filthy mining town. Six people escape, board a small native boat and head into the jungle. One is a priest, another a former German army captain, who subsists mainly on the bitterness of his country's defeat. There is a French Jew at the end of his rope, a money-adoring Belgian, who is accompanied by his eleven-year-old deaf-mute daughter and the French prostitute he is engaged to marry. With them goes the commander of the soldiers, fleeing a situation beyond his control...
...captain Albie Gordon will need a strong performance to defeat Quaker George Katterman and Cornell's Murray Moulding. Both Katterman and Moulding can break 49.0 with ease, and the Penn ace is an especially strong and dangerous competitor...