Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bitterness of their third straight election defeat, Turkey's Republicans erupted with cries of "Fraud." Ex-President Ismet Inonu's party had quintupled its strength, won in a third of Turkey's provinces. But Premier Adnan Menderes' Democrats still held a better-than-2-to-1 margin, with 424 seats to 178 for the Republicans. Angrily the Republicans accused Menderes of "stealing" the election by scratching opposition voters' names from the rolls...
...tremendous orator with a droning voice whose hypnotic effect "has never been equaled," and Putzi Hanfstaengl dreamed of becoming the power behind the drone. With a quality of mind that Germans call dummschlau-a combination of cunning and stupidity-he thought he could use the Nazi barbarians to defeat the domestic Communists and Socialists, and then craftily make sure that Hitler's "revolution" would be orderly and beneficial...
...YORK, Nov. 8--The varsity cross country squad went down to its first defeat of the season this afternoon in the Heptagonal championships at Van Cortlandt Park. The Crimson finished third in the ten-team meet, behind Cornell and Navy...
...definitely a disappointing afternoon for the Crimson runners, but they offered no excuses. They did not attribute their defeat to the persistent run of illnesses which has victimized key members of the squad all fall. Even had Reider, Martin, and Willy Thompson the team's three convalescents at the moment), been in top shape, it does not appear that the varsity could have beaten its strong, well-balanced adversary from Cornell...
Sullivan refused to make any comment on the defeat of the two referendum questions. He also refused to make a statement on what he intended to do about the appointments for the school committee. "You can wait and report on it when the time comes," he said...