Word: defeated
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...major collaboration--No Child Left Behind--has proved a major disappointment to Kennedy? For this bill, Kennedy delivered Democratic votes in exchange for a promise of funding for education that he feels was not delivered. Kennedy aides say history won't get in the way of this deal. To defeat House opponents, it's Bush's mouth, not his money, that Kennedy needs...
...this year’s opening round of the NCAA tournament was simply a blowout defeat for the Harvard men’s hockey team: a 6-1 drubbing by Maine, the same team responsible for the 2002 and 2004 affairs...
...falling behind. "There is nothing hypothetical about the Soviet military machine," the inaugural 1981 volume said. "Its expansion, modernization, and contribution to projection of power beyond Soviet boundaries are obvious." Of course, the Soviets' key expansion at that time was into Afghanistan, from which they retreated in ignominious defeat...
...passageways into the Russell Senate office building. At the end of the day, Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona, Cornyn's co-sponsor, was left alone proposing a series of amendments and wishing out loud that Cornyn were still there to offer some of them himself. Each went down to defeat as Kennedy sat, Buddha-like and in complete control, casting proxy votes in his deep baritone for several Democrats who were not present - and, in one amusing absent-minded moment, even for one, Senator Herb Kohl of Wisconsin...
...Apparently, the fifth time isn’t the charm, either. As the Harvard men’s hockey team has done the past four years, the Crimson failed to get out of the first round of the NCAA tournament, ending its season with a 6-1 defeat to Maine Saturday afternoon at Pepsi Arena. With the loss, the Crimson moved to 0-3 all-time against the Black Bears in the postseason. But unlike the down-to-the-wire contests of 2002 and 2004, Saturday’s game was a blowout. “We were outplayed pretty...