Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year, for its high and its low points. There were very few mediocre teams at Harvard this year; they were either good or bad. The lows were few, but they were bitter: the horrendous November afternoon at New Haven, the hockey team's decimation in Minneapolis, Yale's perennial defeat of the swimming team, and the heavyweight crew's third-place finish at the Sprints...
...Kinds of Defeat. As Honest Dickie Kerr recalls, afterwards all the high spots of his career were involved with a sort of defeat. It was Dickie Kerr who threw a two-and-two pitch to a burly batter named Babe Ruth one afternoon in 1921 in the old Polo Grounds. And the Babe belted it so far it set a special kind of record: it broke the hands of an outfield clock some 500 ft. from the plate. It was Pitcher Kerr who asked his boss Charles ("The Old Roman") Comiskey for a raise after winning 40 games...
...Napoleon known to history emerged with incredible rapidity. The small figure in his green chasseur's uniform and white waistcoat and breeches became a kind of miniature god of war who presided over incredible carnage without blinking. After the defeat at Moscow. Napoleon told Austria's Metternich: "The French can't complain of me. To spare them. I've sacrificed Germans and Poles. I lost 300,000 men, but only 30,000 were French." Retorted Metternich sharply: "You forget, Sire, that you are speaking to a German...
Last December old (70) Dennis Chavez' stock had sunk so low that many a county Democratic chairman was looking for a bright new face to replace him. Supporters of former Democratic Governor John Simms Jr. blamed Chavez for Simms's 1956 defeat, distributed cards: "Give Dennis the Gate in '58." In his hour of grimmest need wily Dennis Chavez turned to an issue that many a Congressman before him has exploited, but never quite so blatantly...
...would run for an eighth term as an independent Democrat. ¶ Conservative Republican Frederic R. Coudert Jr., 60, whose vote-pulling power in Manhattan's East Side silk-stocking 17th Congressional District was badly snagged the last two times out by big Democratic protest votes and near defeat, announced that he would not run for a seventh term. Coudert's withdrawal signaled a bloody primary and a bloodier general election to pick a successor. ¶ Two-term Republican Senator Irving McNeil Ives, 62, one of the Senate handful of steady Eisenhower Republicans, announced that poor health (high blood...