Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high scorer so far is John Santos of Matthews South, who tallied 20 points in the 32 to 29 defeat of Straus South. Henry Zoob was high man for the losers with 14 points. Other scoring leaders are Bill Rodgers of Holworthy with 14 points; Lee Nash of Holworthy with 13 points; and Dave Kales of Mower and Gerry Jordan of Greenough with 12 points...
Disheartened, demoralized and disillusioned with the ineffectual leadership of Erich Ollenhauer and his doctrinaire henchmen, West Germany's Social Democrats have had little to cheer about since their sweeping defeat by Konrad Adenauer two months ago. But last week the Social Democrats plucked up new courage. In Hamburg, the federal republic's biggest city, they turned out the Christian Democratic coalition administration and won election by the biggest political victory in their party's 100-year history...
Last week Zensei was ready to concede defeat. Some brothelkeepers decided to go legal by converting their establishments to "tea parlors" and "grilled chicken restaurants." One Tokyo group announced plans to replace its old row of houses with a $280,000 "amusement center" containing "game parlors" and "chess rooms." Zensei's Tokyo branch notified the city government that all girls would be fired in the next two months and helped to get other jobs. Said a surprised official: "This time they really seem to mean...
...Nacionalistas will try to lure Macapagal into their party. But Macapagal, convinced that the country must develop a two-party system based on principles and not mere personalities, rebuffed his friend Magsaysay's own efforts to sway him through four years, and stuck with the Liberals in defeat, fighting its corrupt elements from within...
Died. Moro Naba ("Master of the Earth"), 53, sword-waving, plume-wearing emperor of the warlike French West African Mossi tribe (some 1,700 members), whose government council seated both a minister of war and of defeat (on the grounds that victory needs no diplomatic skill but defeat does), and whose tribal tradition demanded that he titularly declare war on the neighboring Soussou tribe every Wednesday morning and allow himself to be "persuaded" by tribal elders to postpone the expedition; after a short illness; in Ouagadougou, French West Africa...