Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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OKLAHOMA. Despite the best-organized, best-financed campaign in years, Congressman Ross Rizley was conceded little chance to defeat the Democrats' wealthy ex-Governor Bob Kerr for the seat vacated by ancient Senator Ed Moore. Backed by labor and a strong Democratic tradition, Bob Kerr cried: "Rizley is a reactionary, standpat, Roosevelt-hating, Ed Moore and Bob Taft Republican...
Among the seven Sophomores in the Big Red's starting lineup is Jeff Fleischmann, a plunging 190-pound fullback who was instrumental in the Navy defeat...
...team can go either up or down following a horrendous defeat. It can figure that the upset was merely its own fault and then finish up its season in fine style. Or, like last year's Harvard team after the Virginia disaster, it can figure it just isn't any good after all and end its season in spathy...
...Former National Youth Administrator Aubrey Williams, now publisher of the Southern Farmer, called on Henry Wallace to "repudiate the [Progressive Party] and come on back home." His reason: Wallace "is being used to weaken and defeat the efforts of the U.S. to reach an understanding with Russia...
...national soccer champions from Springfield played like ordinary human beings, but they flashed enough form to defeat the Harvard varsity booters 1 to 0, on the Business School Field last Saturday afternoon. It was the opening game for both teams...