Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last trip to Colorado, in 1955, the Crimson sextet lost its opening game to Michigan, the eventual winner of the tournament, by a 7-3 count. The varsity then came back, however, to defeat St. Lawrence 6 to 3 and take unofficial third place in the final standing...
Kennedy shared many of Russell's doubts about the basic merits of the resolution. He agreed with most Senators in his belief that the Administration had botched the presentation of its case to Congress. But, he said, an Administration defeat would mean "we will have repudiated our Government on a major foreign policy issue before the eyes of the world. We will have demonstrated domestic dissension, disunity and a lack of confidence in our Chief Executive at the very time he is involved in critical negotiations with other nations. We will have blunted our warning to the Soviets...
Thus, concluded Jack Kennedy,* it "seems to me that we are no longer able to consider this resolution on its merits alone. We have been forced by the President's action to consider also the effects of its passage or defeat . . . Many of us would prefer not to vote for this resolution but we dare not, under present world conditions, vote against...
With the general's pretty daughter, the driver is more Panzer than Panza. Defeat puts the general behind bars, and his daughter and the driver in business. They start out as bootleggers, save enough to reopen a bombed-out manufacturing plant where they turn steel helmets into saucepans. Within a year they are beating plowshares back into steel helmets. The author's debatable but haunting notion that history may be repeating itself in postwar Germany is enhanced when the general is released and delivers an impassioned blood-and-iron speech at a reunion of his ex-comrades-inarms...
...NCAA selection committee, which met Saturday night at New Haven, decided on the two teams mainly on the basis of "their superior records." All three members of the committee watched the Crimson's 4-0 defeat of Yale before making their choices...