Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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hotel's ballroom (and on the nation's television screens), he refused to watch Adlai Stevenson's television concession of defeat. He had not looked at Stevenson during the campaign, he said, and he did not intend to start at that late hour...
Politically, his opponent was not so much Adlai Stevenson as it was the Democratic Party. But from the time the President first took there was every indication that he would also defeat that foe. Everywhere he went-from Peoria to Portland. Ore. to Miami Philadelphia-cheering...
Trail's End. But now it was over. Now the long years since the first defeat, the raucous primary fight with Estes Kefauver. the glittering first-ballot victory which brought him his party's nomination at Chicago (and marked, perhaps, the pinnacle of his political career), the frustrating campaign itself-all these were behind...
From Florida came sharp signs of a repeat Eisenhower victory in that no-longer-solid sector of the Solid South. Holyoke, Mass., another good sign of labor's mood, gave Stevenson a margin too thin to suggest anything but defeat...
...Washington, where Democrats turned out the vote to defeat a right-to-work initiative, Ike-blessed Republican Governor Arthur B. Langlie failed resoundingly in an attempt to topple personable Democrat Warren Magnuson from the Senate seat "Maggie" has enjoyed for twelve years...