Word: defeating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leader of the campaign against the petition, Leo F. Malloy, state commander of the American Legion, said that the measure's defeat proved that "the people of Cambridge are really interested in backing our President." Malloy said that "the old neighborhoods of Cambridge" were predominantly against the petition, and the 'yes' vote came from "intellectuals and transients...
...Republican no matter how they were registered. In this freewheeling situation, G.O.P. Winner McCloskey got well over three times the number of votes that went to the Democratic winner, and even the vanquished Shirley bested Archibald by more than 2 to 1. "A lot of Democrats went over to defeat that girl," said Archibald. "They'll come to my side...
...Save the Pound." When Prime Minister Harold Wilson and the Social ists took power late in 1964, the pound was in one of its deeper malaises. Before he took office Wilson had warned the Commons that "devaluation would be regarded all over the world as an acknowledgment of defeat, a recognition that we are not on a springboard but a slide." Still, there were those who argued, and last week saw their arguments vindicated, that Wilson's first act as Prime Minister should have been devaluation. He could justifiably have laid the blame on 13 years of Tory mismanagement...
There was a time in the Ivy League when losers could usually console themselves that their defeat was likely to be measured by no more than a gentlemanly two, or at the worst, three touchdowns. Not this year. From the high-scoring tortures the Ivies are inflicting on one another, Eli, John and the other chaps don't live there any more...
Neal P. Katz, one of four losing candidates in the final election and a member of Students for a Democratic Society, said he attributed his defeat to "clubbie backlash." Katz was one of an original field of twenty...