Word: defeating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Riddled by injuries, the Crimson had lost three out of their last four games before yesterday's defeat, which upped Yale's winning skein to five. After enjoying early season success, Harvard found itself overwhelmed by injuries to key players during the second half of the campaign...
...Hooray for Richard Nixon! He has survived presidential defeat in 1960, his personal nadir in the 1962 California Governor's race, the 1964 Republican fiasco, and even L.B.J., to reunite the Republican Party and become President. Political shades of Horatio Alger...
Like Adlai Stevenson before him, Hubert Humphrey somehow seemed taller in defeat. His final, fierce effort to overtake Richard Nixon had already won back the respect of many. His gracious acceptance of the loss disarmed most of the remaining critics. On his desk in Washington lay mountains of mail from Democrats and Republicans alike, nearly all of it favorable. Even while he relaxed last week in the Virgin Islands, he relayed word to friends in Washington that in any planning for the future of the Democratic Party, he was to be counted...
After 28 years of uninterrupted victories, Puerto Rico's ex-Governor Luis Muñoz Marin and his Popular Democratic Party found defeat hard to take...
...split in the P.D.P. contributed to its defeat. Outgoing Governor Roberto Sánchez Vilella was Muñoz' handpicked successor but ran afoul of the old man -and much of the island's Roman Catholic population-when he divorced his wife of 31 years and married a younger woman. Opposed by Muñoz for renomination, Sánchez bolted the P.D.P. to run as a third-party candidate. He pulled 87,000 votes that probably would otherwise have gone to the P.D.P...