Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opponents. Both McDonough and Hynes call Curley a jailbird and point out that he's too old to do a good job. The two, also, call each other some names: Hynes accuses McDonough of being a young Curley while McDonough thinks that Hynes is actually backed by Curley to defeat McDonough. Curley calls Hynes a fusion candidate, a political dupe of the Republicans on Beacon Hill...
Winthrop, which has lost only to Adams should hand Lowell its fourth defeat. Lowell has suffered several key injuries this season, and has yet to produce a well-coordinated attack. The Puritans have a heavy line and power plays to exploit the weakened Bellboys...
...shower probably saved the Puritans from their second defeat of the season. The league-leading Elephants, with a polished T-formation and hard-running backs, have so far swept over all four House opponents they have faced to date. In Pete Reiner, Eliot has one of the best backs in House football...
...offer the guess that Painter Rowe found his inspiration for David in the famous 1941 photograph of a Frenchman mourning his country's defeat...
Even in the years after the Civil War, she continues, "the South's conscience hurt; always there were doubts and scruples." Had the South been able to make a clean break with its past, the evil might have been exorcised. But gnawed by memories of its defeat and provoked by harsh meddlers from the North, the South gradually transformed "the Negro question" into a fanatical folk bias, coloring its segregated religion, its sex attitudes, its every moment in life...