Word: defeating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American artist that poured out in Jarrell's poems. He was recovering or perhaps failing to recover from a nervous breakdown that October in North Carolina. "When I last saw him, not long before his death," Arendt writes, "the laughter was almost gone and he was ready to admit defeat...
...saying: "A lot of people voted their prejudices, but more people voted something else." White, more assertive as a victor than as a campaigner, declared: "No man or woman is going to tear this city apart with hate or bigotry or false promises." Mrs. Hicks, more gracious in defeat than in combat, appeared with White on election night to congratulate him and wish him well...
...last-ditch attempt to defeat Gary's Mayoral Candidate Richard Hatcher, the local Democratic machine set out to steal the vote in vintage Tammany Hall style. And the machine under Boss John Krupa, Hatcher's archfoe, was just the outfit to do it. As secretary of the board of election commissioners and the board of canvassers, Krupa dropped from the registration lists the names of 5,286 voters, mostly Negroes. At the same time, hundreds of fictitious registrations were added so that paid impostors could cast ballots against Hatcher. Since his winning margin last week was only...
...Bulldogs are looking invincible after three straight routs; Princeton is rolling high after clobbering Harvard 45-6. Princeton has one advantage in playing at home; Yale has the revenge motive of six straight losses to Princeton, including a galling 13-7 blocked punt defeat last season...
...Hampshire," these people argued, "McCarthy would need Estes Kefauver's drive or Jack Kennedy's money. He has neither." Moreover, they said, a defeat in New Hampshire would likely sound the death knell for the rest of the campaign...