Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kremlin knew that his Italian defeat was hot irretrievable (see FOREIGN NEWS). Meanwhile there were other directions in which to move and strike. One possibility, of which some Americans became suddenly aware last week, was not to strike at all, but to summon up a spell of sweetness & light...
...Waterloo. At first the Communists seemed stunned by their defeat. The victors gleefully taunted them with banners: "Togliatti-do you understand? Go back to Russia!" Rome chuckled over the story of the two Communist election judges at Ischia: when the returns were counted, only one Communist vote had been cast. Each judge called the other a traitor; both wound up in the hospital...
...Frank Collyer, the red and white cars of Cornell have a competent pacesetter, and behind him range many of the same unit that nipped the Crimson last year for its only defeat. Bolles' Varsity is in good shape for the 6 o'clock Varsity struggle, despite the absence of Jud Gale from the number 5 slide...
...rains came too late. Under a lowering sky, the tennis team went down to its first league defeat yesterday against Cornell, 7 to 2. The Cayugans took all six singles matches and the first doubles match to stop cold the Crimson's five game winning streak...
...what was probably the biggest display of student enthusiasm since the end of the football season, University Republicans made a surprise rally behind Vandenberg on the third ballot to defeat Harold E. Stassen who had come within 20 votes of winning the nomination on the previous roll-call...