Word: defeating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senator in New York. He vividly re-creates a hotel-room scene in which Kennedy, wearing only his shorts, berates Adam Walinsky and Jeff Greenfield, two young speech-writing aides, for spending more time plucking at guitars than pecking at typewriters. At the time, Kennedy was facing defeat in Oregon...
...victories piled in, each more surprising than the last. The key to any undefeated season is not to think about it. Take each game as it comes and play your best football. For the Harvard eleven this was easy. Each Saturday they were faced with a challenge, and no defeat could have been considered an upset...
...crowd of 2,000 expected a tight game on October 28 when the Quakers met the Crimson. But the potential of the Crimson, so obscure in pre-season exhibitions, was again apparent, though again not its limits. What was supposed to be another tight game, a possible defeat for Harvard, ended in a rout. The Quakers went home after a 28-6 shellacking and there wasn't much to drink to in the Penn fraternities...
...knows something that many writing contemporaries do not understand: that failure is, in fact, the natural state of man. Converting chronic self-pity into the beginnings of self-awareness, Power proves himself, if not quite a tragedian, at least a master alchemist at producing final honor from final defeat...
Sources close to Massachusetts Hall say that the Corporation has been deeply split over the choice of Lindsay-a graduate of rival college Yale. However, the Harvard administrators reportedly feel that Lindsay's defeat of Norman Mailer '43 in the New York mayoral race may help Mailer lose his race for the Harvard Board of Overseers...