Word: defeated
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...Crimson, now 6-5, played well enough to defeat almost any other team. With the exception of a few disorganized minutes at the start of the second half when the Huskies tallied twice, the team produced its finest effort of this year's up and down season...
...table, listening appreciatively to the reading of the minutes of the last meeting. He even grinned at the jokes told by the chairman of the organizing committee for a forthcoming dinner dance, who went into some detail about preparations, and told his listeners joshingly that they had better admit defeat and buy tickets, because their wives knew all about it, and there was no escape. After an hour and a quarter, Nixon was permitted to give his speech, which counseled a policy of unceasing hostility toward Red China. I have wondered since then whether the severe strain of this evening...
Nowadays the commonest statistics about the world and the nation-from the megatonnages of the SALT debate to the dollars of the defense budget-tend to defeat the ordinary imagination. The world population is supposedly 4.2 billion. The nation's 3.N.P. is running at about $2.39 trillion. Washington debates whether defense spending will increase to as much as $122 billion (see cover story for an idea of the realities underlying the number). In truth, far smaller figures can overtax ordinary people, many of whom, after all, have trouble fathoming the weather service's temperature-humidity index...
Shuping Coapage, a delegate of the African National Congress, told the voters that grassroots work across the world is needed to defeat apartheid...
There is a real danger that anti-abortion legislation could become increasingly more restrictive. It already discriminates against women in lower economic brackets. The power of the pro-life people should not be underestimated: they have targeted 12 Congressmen for defeat in 1980, among them Morris Udall and Birch Bayh. We need to inform our politicians of their pro-choice constituency and reverse the further tightening of the over-restrictive and discriminatory legislation...