Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...MOINES TRIBUNE: THE voters have expressed a strong vote of no confidence in the Eisenhower Administration and in the Republican party-the Republican old guard suffered a drastic defeat...
...first-half recession and its jittery aftermath was a basic cause of Republican defeat, especially in such still-troubled spots as West Virginia, Michigan, Ohio and Indiana. Effect of the recession issue: Democratic congressional leaders, apparently willing to go slow as long as recovery continues, will be standing by to start priming the pumps as never before the moment the economy turns down...
...talk about it he did, in snappish tones edged with determination. Asked about the reasons for his party's defeat, he pointed to two failures: the G.O.P.'s failure to get its campaign rolling soon enough (he referred to Republicans as "they"), and the voters' failure to understand the dangers of excessive federal spending. He had warned about the "spender-wing" of the Democratic Party in his campaign speeches, he said, but "apparently that didn't make any great impression" on the voters. "I don't know whether they did this thing deliberately," he went...
...Complete Reversal." Could the G.O.P.'s defeat, a reporter asked, be blamed on "disenchantment with the Administration"? Ike's reply showed that the thumping his party took at the polls had baffled as well as hurt him. After he had preached his "middle-of-road" convictions for four years, he said, the voters had re-elected him, in 1956, by a "majority of, I think, well over 9,000,000 votes.* Now, here, only two years later, there is a complete reversal; and yet I do not see where there is anything that these people consciously want...
...other side of the aisle, Republican ranks, though depleted, may find in defeat a new cohesion that will let them exploit Democratic splits. Ailing Joe Martin of Massachusetts will probably hand more of the House minority leader's power over to quick-moving Ikeman Charlie Halleck of Indiana; the Senate's probable new Republican leader, Old Guardist-turned-Ikeman Everett Dirksen of Illinois, will doubtless be a much smoother operator than bumbling ex-Minority Leader Bill Knowland...