Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eisenhower received the three-man fact-finding board's report yesterday morning after the panel acknowledged defeat in its effort to mediate the dispute...
...status of its ace, Jed Fitzgerald, in doubt, the varsity cross country team will travel to Amherst today for a meet with a strong squad from the University of Massachusetts. UMass has a good group of above-average harriers, and the Crimson will need a top effort to defeat the Redmen...
Outside Conservative Party headquarters in London's Smith Square, jubilant crowds stumbled over TV cables and shouted noisily at each new bulletin heralding the election of yet another Tory M.P. At 1:25 a.m., long after the Laborites at their glum command post across the square had conceded defeat in Britain's 1959 general election, an elegant, grey-haired figure in evening dress stepped from a sedan to a surge of Tory cheers. "Well done, Mac," shouted voices. "You did it!" The tall, patrician-looking man paused for a moment, his handsome wife in blue evening gown...
...optimism that they would soon succeed Labor as the chief opposition party -a prediction that overlooked the fact that more than 40% of British voters stuck by Labor through the sweep. But the fact remained that for Britain's 53-year-old Labor Party it was a staggering defeat, threatening to open never-healed wounds, confronting Labor's leaders with the hard fact that Britain's citizens want no more socialism...
...Georgia Tech (4-0)-made a ball carrier out of Blocking Back Taz Anderson, turned him loose for both touchdowns in a 14-7 defeat of tough, unbeaten Tennessee...