Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...final count of last week's election showed that Adenauer and the Socialists together tallied an impressive 81% of the popular vote. In defeat, the Socialists actually increased their share of the popular vote from 28.8% in 1953 to 31.75%. Under Germany's proportional-representation system, this gives the Socialists just over one-third of the Bundestag's 497 seats, or enough to block any constitutional changes. Of all the other parties, only Reinhold Maier's right-of-center Free Democrats, who won 41 seats, got more than the minimum 5% necessary to be represented...
McMath was elected twice to the governorship as a Liberal Democratic candidate, and then suffered an overwhelming defeat...
...told the CRIMSON that Faubus was undoubtedly in control of the state, and that no candidate could hope, at present, to defeat him. The ex-governor did say, however, that he felt the liberal wing of the state party would eventually emerge stronger because of the present situation...
...bitter disappointment of defeat, the 37-year-old Robinson said last night, "I don't know whether I'll ever fight again." He was incommunicado today...
...Until Boeing and Douglas pure jetliners were ready to fly in 1959, British Overseas Airways Corp.'s big (93 passengers), fast (385 m.p.h.) turboprop plane seemed a likely cream-skimmer in the lush transatlantic trade. But once again Britain's state-dominated aircraft industry managed to pluck defeat from victory. Nine months late, Bristol last week finally rolled out the first of 18 Britannia 312s for BOAC amid a chorus of complaints about the plane. It was still so full of bugs that further testing will keep it out of service until early next year...