Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soviet secrecy concerning space flights. Czechoslovakia issued special commemorative stamps, and a Hungarian television commentator talked of "amazing tasks" during the moon walk. Poles unveiled a soaring statue at the Cracow sports stadium in honor of Apollo's astronauts. Said Radio Warsaw: "Let them come back happily. Their defeat would be the defeat of all mankind...
...Preus (rhymes with choice), head of the Synod's Concordia Seminary in Springfield, Ill. The election of Preus, a learned conservative who opposes fellowship, was seen as an implied vote of no confidence in the Harms-backed plan for fellowship with the ALC. Despite Harms' personal defeat, however, years of subtle campaigning by backers of the proposal itself paid off. When the secret ballots were counted, the resolution had passed...
...within 20 days, the council does not pass, without amendments, the rent control ordinance proposed by the initiative petition, the ordinance is then automatically put to the others, who can either pass it into law, or defeat...
Though the housing convention supporters regarded the defeat of their bill as a tragedy, the real tragedy of the Cambridge housing crisis may be only beginning. The next few months may well be ones of lost opportunities for Cambridge; chances to alleviate the housing crisis are likely to slip away for lack of political push behind them. If the past year's agitation has done nothing else, it has at least created an awareness on the part of the City government and other institutions, primarily the universities, that some action is required on housing...
Critics argue that the dole does little to stimulate a welfare recipient, while general manpower or rehabiliation programs oftentimes attempt to educate a group en masse and thus again defeat their own purpose by avoiding the problems of the individual...