Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will twine tightly this fall--at least the Ivy League football standings. For the first time since the eight-team conference was organized three years ago--and Yale took the title with an 7-1 record--a Harvard team has the potential to defeat any of its opponents, perhaps all of them. The four teams that have the best chance for the title are the Crimson, Penn, Princeton, and Dartmouth. Here is the outlook...
...second bottle. Halleck swore to do his all, dutifully got off wires and cables to absentees, cracked the G.O.P. whip. But since their support of the first veto, a critical number of his hard-pressed Republicans and antipork Democrats had become convinced that a second antipork vote would bring defeat in next year's elections. Result: 280 (260 Democrats, 20 Republicans) to 121 (5 Democrats, 116 Republicans), a lucky 13 votes more than the Democrats needed to override...
...eight countries held off some 25,000 wild besiegers for 55 days. A single determined assault would have smothered the defenders. The foreigners, mostly British, Russians and Americans, had little ammunition; they did have food (mostly pony meat), champagne from the legation cellars, water, and the certain knowledge that defeat meant death by torture. The grim defense showed the Boxers to be paper tigers. Though the peasants screamed, "Sha, sha [Kill, kill]," they left most of the fighting to the Empress' 6,000-man force of Moslem cavalry. As the siege dragged on. the Boxers posted rewards for dead...
...produced upon the audience in the Old South Church was long remembered by those who heard it, for the fiery enthusiasm it aroused, and the passionate tears it drew forth." Quincy stood for Congress in the election of 1800, and, like the rest of the Federalists, went down to defeat. Democratic newspapers pointed out that Quincy was only 28 years old and called for a cradle in which to rock...
...independently-minded member of a virtually extinct party, Quincy became a unique figure on Capitol Hill. The Federalist demise began in 1800 with John Adams' defeat; in 1804, only seven Senators and 25 out of 140 Representatives belonged to the party. Quincy soon became the leader of this ineffectual minority, which sought reconciliation with Great Britain against the menace of Napoleon...