Word: defeating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...earth does resettle. There is no victory, of course, but there is a postponement of defeat. Man and wife reach an accommodation with age. It is a counting of what is left, rather than what is gone: his clarity of mind and a measure of curiosity, her skill and knowledge, a love based solidly on respect. For the moment, these outweigh the prospect of false teeth and sciatica. Will they continue to? "I do not know. Let us hope so. We have no choice in the matter...
...Crimson is second, behind Cornell, in the Ivy standings and must sweep its last, two games to win a share of the league championship. Harvard will have a chance to avenge its 8-4 loss to Cornell, its only Ivy defeat, when it faces the Big Red next Tuesday, but it must also win both Yale contests...
...Bombay's Shiv Sena, formed in 1966 by a hot-tempered political cartoonist named Bal Thackeray.* A fierce anti-Communist who admits to an admiration for Adolf Hitler's nation-building abilities, Thackeray emerged as a political force in 1967, when he and his followers engineered the defeat of Krishna Menon's bid for re-election to Parliament. Since that time, Thackeray has fought hard to obtain a better break for the natives of Maharashtra State, of which Bombay is the capital; in particular, he worked to get more white-collar jobs for them, charging that outsiders...
Breaking the Psychology. In trying to curtail inflation, the Nixon Administration hopes to decelerate the economy gradually, avoiding the kind of overzealous monetary restraint that helped bring on the last real recession in 1959-60 and contributed to Nixon's defeat by John F. Kennedy. The more immediate danger, however, is that any sign of an economic downturn may tempt the Government to let up too soon on the anti-inflation campaign...
...duplicating Penn's 6-3 victory over the Tigers, Harvard maintained its five-point lead over the Quakers in individual matches. The squashmen must defeat a weak Yale team Saturday to retain the national crown...