Word: defeating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Republican defeat in 1960 sent both men back to private law practice. Rogers rejoined the New York-Washington firm now known as Royall, Koegel, Rogers & Wells, practicing general corporate law. He is now a senior partner, with an income of about $300,000 a year, clients such as 20th Century-Fox, the Associated Press and the International Herald Tribune, a home in Bethesda, Md., and a New York apartment overlooking the East River. Yet his life-style is not pretentious. His Washington office is smallish. His home is roomy but not luxurious; the swimming pool in back is a small...
...freshman fencing team suffered a disappointing but not unexpected 20-7 defeat at the hands of experienced Concord High School team in Concord Wednesday...
...CHARACTERS accept major defeats when they happen because they accept everything that happens. They even come to beg for defeat when it becomes clear that influencing cause and effect, indeed determining the course of their own lives, is for them impossible. Mother Night opens with the voice of Vonnegut coming at us through the mouth of a Nazi war criminal sitting in an Israeli prison awaiting trial. At the end of the book he does himself in when he suddenly finds he has the evidence to acquit himself...
...Crimson, which has a history of alternating brilliant and miserable games, will have to shake off Saturday's performance and bounce back to its former style of play if it is going to defeat this fast-improving B.C. team...
...alliance of liberals appears to have a much better chance of success in December of 1968 than it did at any time during the pre-convention Presidential battle. The political landscape was changed quite radically by campaigns (Kennedy, McCarthy, and McGovern) within the party and by the Democrats' defeat in the November elections. In Arizona, for instance, the Democrats hold no statewide offices (from U.S. Senator down) and are in a minority in both houses of the legislature. "In 1968 the conservatives kept telling us not to upset the applecart--Johnson would lose and we would be defeated...