Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coach Dana Getchell commented after the game that "the defeat may have done the freshmen a lot of good," especially because it brought out many faults. In yesterday's match, the freshmen, playing for the first time together with an outside team, seemed to lack the team co-ordination which comes with familiarity. Exeter, on the other hand, had the necessary control of the ball...
...November denouement, both parties find accuracy less and less requisite in their campaigns. Vice-President Nixon might well be correct in saying, "The public memory is very short," but he and his party are insulting the voters' intelligence in proclaiming that the Democratic Party was responsible for the defeat of the Kennedy-Ives labor reform bill...
...merits of the Kennedy-Ives bill may be debated, but the Republican Party should display a greater concern for the truth than to blame the Democrats for its defeat...
...necessity for new elections has been obvious since April, when the ruling Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League split and Nu accepted Communist support to avoid parliamentary defeat. That split, and the concessions it caused Nu to make to Burma's Communists, also threatened to open the way for the Communists to achieve more at the polls than they had ever won in years of fitful jungle revolt...
...rules that can be glibly quoted by every tyro: 1) never lead from a king, and 2) never leave an honor unguarded. Goren unblinkingly led the nine of spades. By violating two elementary rules of play, he made the only lead that, as the cards lay, could possibly have defeated the contract. After taking the trick with dummy's queen, East led the five of spades, putting down his jack on the assumption that South, being apparently of sound mind, would never have led the nine away from K-9 of trump. Goren copped the trick with his lurking...