Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...take a single game from Holleran, Vinton, Lake, Lemann or Smith, who played numbers three through seven for the Crimson. In one of the most conclusive matches of an already decisive day, Peter Smith won his first game 15 to 1. Alden Briggs and Doug Poole completed Navy's defeat by taking the two final matches...
...believing, we look on our nation's great wealth as more than a hard-earned resource to be used only for our own material good. If we can truly cooperate with other nations, especially our friends of the free world, we can first defeat the evils of hunger, privation and disease. Thus we can develop a healthier, more prosperous world, and in the process develop greater prosperity for ourselves...
...make the defeat more galling, Louisiana picked two of Long's bitterest enemies to fight it out in the runoff. High man of the eleven candidates scrambling for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination: de-Lesseps Story Morrison, 47, veteran reform Mayor of New Orleans (four four-year terms), clobbered by Ole Earl in the 1956 gubernatorial primary, and running an uphill race against rural Louisiana's traditional prejudice against 1) a big-city boy and 2) a Roman Catholic. Some 63,000 votes behind Morrison came ex-Governor (1944-48) Jimmie Davis, sometime songwriting guitarist (You Are My Sunshine...
This Navy squad the varsity hopes to defeat Saturday was top team in the country last year. Like most service athletes, the Midshipmen will be big, tough, and in excellent physical shape...
...insulated their feet against the 28° temperature of South Bend with layers of sweat socks and cellophane, but nothing helped against a Notre Dame team that has abruptly become a major power since Quarterback George Izo returned to full health. Capping its 20-19 defeat of Iowa the week before, Notre Dame disposed of nationally ranked U.S.C. 16-6 to end a dismal season (5-5) with a flourish...