Word: defeating
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...match for all the Arab forces combined"? Why doesn't she prove this by going to fight now? After all, it has become clear to the world that Nasser has "brazenly" challenged her to do so. This should be her chance, for wouldn't a total defeat inflicted on the Egyptians mean a welcome end to her troubles? Why is she hesitating? Or will she this time create still another myth-that the Soviet Union is going to send down the Red Army to fight her glorious forces? O David, where is thy sling...
...passage by a coalition of Republicans and Southerners eager to reduce Washington's influence. But Lyndon Johnson prizes his education program above all other accomplishments. Although the President has been relatively cautious in applying presidential muscle to the 90th Congress, he decided to go all the way to defeat the Quie substitute. He publicly attacked the measure as "fanning the church-public school controversy," applied personal pressure to the Texas delegation and sanctioned a public relations offensive by White House aides and Cabinet members. New York Republican Charles Goodell described the result as the "Johnson juggernaut." The Administration...
Across the U.S., a growing number of taxpayers are rebelling against the mounting costs of public education by voting down new levies and rejecting bond issues. In 1960, according to the U.S. Office of Education, only 11% of the nation's school bond issues went down to defeat; last year, 25.5% were rejected by voters, while countless others were approved by whisker-thin margins. Southern California, where public school expenditures have risen 345% since 1950, is a major center of the revolt: in the past two years, exactly half of the state's 202 school bond issues have...
...squad lost to Andover, Princeton, and Choate. Against Andover, there were four 3-set singles matches; yet Wise won the only one for Harvard. At Princeton, Mike Ezell, at number six, pushed his man for three and a half hours before losing a heartbreaking match. The Choate defeat, a 9-0 whitewash, was even more humiliating. "We were leading in every match when it started to rain, and we came back and lost them all," Wynn said...
...freshmen, whose only other defeat was at Exeter, the contest with the Elis had looked like another easy victory. The top three players, Yank Heisler, Jack Purdy, and Chris Gurry, all won their matches at the long, sprawling Country Club in Brookline...