Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...county unit system can let one Negro-hating woolhat in a rural county outvote 154 Atlanta moderates. But the South is changing, as nobody knows better than tough-minded Herman Talmadge. He has toned down his racism, noted carefully that the unfair unit system has come perilously close to defeat in four test cases that went to the Supreme Court. Last week Talmadge hinted to Atlanta TV listeners that, rather than risk a new court test, now threatened, he might work out a compromise to let their votes count for more...
...incident-and the tight-lipped manner of Alcorn in his defeat-were indicative of the way that quiet, resourceful Meade Alcorn operated (TIME, Jan. 19) as the G.O.P.'s top political boss. Last week the President grudgingly assented when Connecticut's Alcorn, after 26 turbulent months, offered his resignation (as of April 10) in order to return to his Hartford law firm (Alcorn, Bakewell & Smith) for urgent personal reasons...
Cleveland needed three pitchers in the ninth inning to defeat the Athletics, 6 to 4, in an American League opener in Kansas City. Gary Bell, entering the ninth with a four-run lead, gained one out and gave up three singles and a run before being relieved by Herb Score...
...seven-school meet at Tech today the two Crimson Freshman crews stand a good chance of sailing away with honors in 12-foot Tech dinghies. The Freshman sailors will also compete in the octagonals at Brown tomorrow, at which the Coast Guard Cadets are favored to defeat their opponents...
Hotspur lies dead, however, at the end of the play, and the coming repudiation of Falstaff is announced near the beginning. Shakespeare's theme, one of his favorites, is the defeat of high disorder and glorious idiosyncrasy by a comparatively hum-drum and rather chilly practicality, in the person of Henry, Prince of Wales. In Part II of Henry IV Shakespeare shows us that Hotspur's colleagues are merely anarchic self-seekers and that Falstaff and his friends have a sizeable streak of moral rottenness; in Henry V the now-eponymous hero reconciles (with some disturbing overtones) personal grandeur with...