Word: defeating
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...backs the team was counting on continued to come through in the third game as the club scored its biggest win of the tour, coming from behind to defeat Duke 6-3. Scrum Paul Budenhagen got both the tries after Harvard had won the lineouts...
Dangers of Defeat. While losing 51 seats, the Conservatives took not one seat away from another party. Swept out of the House were a dozen former Tory ministers, including onetime Chancellor of the Exchequer Peter Thorneycroft, former Aviation Minister Julian Amery, and onetime Minister of Agriculture Christopher Soames. Ted Heath managed to hold on to his seat in the genteel London suburb of Bexley, but his majority fell...
...Labor to a lean margin. "Our campaign was ahead of its time," explained Heath. "We did not succeed in convincing the people of the dangers facing the country. But as time passes, people will remember what was said in this campaign." Perhaps so, but as leader during such a defeat, Heath is in some danger of being dumped as the Conservatives reshape their strategy to challenge Labor in the next election...
...President's imagination and energies. Kneading the air with freckled hands, arching his circumflex eyebrows and managing to speak about twice as fast as any Teletype can relay his words, he declares: "There is a new spirit there, because we have not only said that we wish to defeat aggression, but we wish to defeat social misery, and here is where we all come in. We are seeking to help build with the South Vietnamese a whole new society...
...million it would raise-two-thirds to be allotted to education -would redeem his campaign promises to bring New Jersey up to date. Last week, in the most bruising defeat of his career, the Governor learned that his lawmakers would sooner change the name of the state to Old Jersey than approve new taxes...