Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...squad had a light work-out yesterday, emphasizing shooting, which was the main reason for Saturday's loss at Amherst. Coach Floyd Wilson expressed "no alibis" for the defeat, and added that he would stick with the same offensive and defensive patterns the team had worked on all season...
Hardest hit of all were the Communists, who lost more than 2,000,000 of the 5,500,000 votes they got in 1956. Their defeat was furthered by adroit gerrymandering and the coalitions that non-Communist parties formed against strong Communist candidates. Party Boss Maurice Thorez squeaked back into the Assembly, but his wife, Jeanette Vermeersch, was beaten by a Gaullist in one of Paris' "reddest" districts; so, too, was tubby Jacques Duclos, the party's No. 2 man and parliamentary leader. Of the 150 seats won in 1956, the Communists held on to only ten. This...
...next foreigner was Yanqui Sam Houston, who defeated Antonio López de Santa Anna at the battle of San Jacinto in 1836 and won the independence of Texas, which nine years later joined the U.S. In 1846 and 1847 the U.S. sent Generals Zachary ("Old Rough and Ready") Taylor and Winfield ("Old Fuss and Feathers") Scott into Mexico to defeat Santa Anna again, seize all the land from northern California to Texas...
...Auburn (9-0-1.)-content just to keep winning, no matter how unimpressively, got by fired-up Alabama 14-8 to complete its second straight season without defeat...
...neither. Like Zorba, Odysseus exults in life, and even during his lowest moments he is seldom without gusto. There are times when he thinks he is better than God, times when he thinks that man ought to help God rather than the other way around. He never accepts defeat...