Word: defeated
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...Quakers haven’t lost an Ivy game since a 28-21 defeat in Cambridge in 2001. The last time Penn lost a league game at home people were too busy worrying about Y2K to notice...
Princeton’s only loss of the season came last weekend after Colgate launched a furious second-half comeback to erase a double-digit deficit before holding on for victory. Brown’s sole defeat came at the hands of Harvard, which dug out of a 21-point second-half hole...
...just the year before, Brown’s defeat of Harvard at the end of the season gave it a share of the Ivy League title with Princeton over the third-place Crimson...
Robert Drew’s 1960 film Primary, which kicked off the HFA film series on Thursday, chronicles the efforts of John F. Kennedy ’40, who was also a Crimson editor, to defeat Hubert H. Humphrey for the Democratic nomination for the presidency. It is widely seen as the first foray into the politics of cinéma vérité (sometimes termed “direct cinema”), a subset of the documentary genre featuring factual portrayal of the subject’s activities, with minimal interference by the director...
...Pale and subdued, he looks as one might expect a man to look who's been billed as a savior but whose party has lost ground in his first shot at power. Acknowledging a long ovation, he can muster only brief, brave smiles; the sting of defeat has stripped him of his usual self-consciousness and he's the more appealing for it. In this sense nothing in his campaign became him like the leaving it, and his speech is magnanimous, though this is a pleasing tradition in Australian politics - in what must have been some parallel universe, Howard gave...