Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...farmer, and if your consumer-biased articles help defeat future farmer-giveaway programs and rid the farming industry of the leeches, the inefficient marginal producers, I say good work. Let's give farming back to the farmers...
...Republican Party that it must develop a program of its own if it wishes to preserve not only its own political party but the two-party system." Matters had hardly gotten to that extreme stage yet. A closer danger was that Republican diehards in the Midwest seize on the defeat of Internationalist John Foster Dulles as one more proof that the bipartisan foreign policy was a political albatross...
...which stymies the folks who like to make predictions on the basis of comparative scores, for today's contenders appear just about equal. Both have suffered one overwhelming defeat; Harvard was stronger defensively and weaker offensively against Dartmouth, stronger offensively and weaker defensively against Brown...
Valpey had only one comment about last Saturday's defeat. "We didn't play well." He was even more restrained concerning plans for Yale, saying merely that the Elis had "several offensive patterns" to prepare against...
...Covenant is a steaming caldron of 19th Century medical horror that sometimes bubbles over in such phrases as "The love in him wrung its hands in defeat." But more often its galloping, impassioned style exactly conveys the sight and smell of wards full of dying women, the outraged conservatism of doctors who bitterly resisted aseptic surgery, the heartbreak of seeing a lifesaving discovery rejected...