Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French politicians were already beginning to like the thought of the politics that would be resumed when De Gaulle relinquishes his temporary mandate. On the far left, tubby Communist Boss Jacques busily trying party as the voice of "the republican masses," opened a drive for a popular front to defeat De Gaulle's proposed constitutional reforms. (After a long, nervous and undecided silence. Moscow's Pravda las: week published a Duclos interview labeling De Gaulle's government ''the embodiment of the blackest reaction." ) At the other end of the political spectrum, fascist-inclined Pierre Poujade...
Abandoned by their idols and outflanked by the Army-which has quietly taken over almost all key posts in the Algerian civil administration-the diehards had little choice but to make what amounted to a humiliating confession of defeat, joining the other members of the Public Safety Committee in a pledge of "devotion to General de Gaulle...
Brandished Threat. But the formidable trio of Knowland, Dirksen and Bridges wanted none of it. Facing defeat on the floor, the trio outflanked Kennedy & Co. by marching to the White House. If the Administration persisted in endorsing the Kennedy amendment, they warned, they would retaliate by slashing foreign aid funds. Retreating halfway, the President let word get out that he liked the principle of the Kennedy amendment, but was leaving it up to the Senate to decide whether to tack it on to the foreign aid bill or defer it for later action. Was he sure that this was where...
...Alabama the Democratic Party last week pledged itself to the brand of extremist politics that has been rife in the South since Little Rock. Items: EURJ In the runoff primary for Governor, Attorney General John Patterson, 36, piled up a record vote to defeat Circuit Judge George Wallace by 64,388 even after Patterson had been unmasked as the favorite of Ku Klux Klan leaders and had made a public appeal for the votes of Klansmen. Opponent Wallace, himself an unhooded knight of white supremacy, first attacked Patterson for his K.K.K. ties, then shut up when he saw that...
...Crimson baseball team, which has been squeaking by on one-run victories all season, ran out of luck yesterday. Leading Yale 4 to 3 going into the ninth inning, the varsity suddenly fell victim to a six-run Eli rally and went down to a 9-4 defeat...