Word: defeating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gilligan watchers, bringing three hard-fought battles and two narrow losses in unfriendly Republican territory. First came the nationally-covered Congressional race with Robert Taft, Jr., heir to the Taft political dynasty in Cincinnati. Then the loss to Saxbe, a nonentity on whom the state GOP lavished millions to defeat the man Republicans considered Ohio's Red threat...
...fine. Though most of those convicted had not heard about the curfew, ninety were processed and sentenced in a bizarre mass trial held the night of the arrests. When Gilligan called the trials a joke, press and public reacted hysterically. "Arson and rape" became the decisive ingredients in his defeat next November...
...With the exception of two players, I could pretty much defeat anyone in the East without too much trouble," he says, "so I decided to be a little more relaxed and easygoing on the courts, figuring that the psyche value could carry me through a few matches...
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Princeton captain Hal Hoeland handed Tommy Wynne his fifth defeat of the year, 2 and 1. Crimson number seven man Joe Tibbetts was just shy of equaling last spring's 11-3 record as he dropped his match to Don Adams...