Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...William Butler Yeats had more pertinent things to say about this year's election than his lines on defeat [Nov. 15]. He also wrote...
...Jolla. Klein and his wife Marjorie have two married daughters. He reads newspapers and periodicals, but seldom has time for books. He views the world through habitually squinted eyes and speaks so softly that reporters must strain to hear him. He wept openly after Nixon's 1960 defeat and did so again, perhaps for different reasons, after Nixon's famous "last press conference" following the California gubernatorial election of 1962. With newsmen, he has preserved a reputation for efficiency and impartiality that will undoubtedly be more than a little useful in the months to come. In fact, Copley...
Financially, Humphrey felt the polls had hurt him. He remarked several times that he received fewer donations at the outset of his campaign because the polls had marked him with the stigma of defeat. A more direct danger, however, is that polls can be deliberately manipulated by office holders and office seekers alike to influence public opinion...
...found your Essay, "The Difficult Art of Losing" [Nov. 15], most interesting. There is no doubt that in the Western world the tradition of publicly conceding defeat to a political opponent has been well established. I think Americans have reached a high point of civilization by having made this beautiful and courageous practice an important part of their way of life...
...square, the chief opposition presidential candidate, Rafael Caldera, head of the Social Christian Party, has a huge calendar ticking off the days until el cambio, "the change." In riposte, the governing Acción De-mocrática party is flying two calendars charting the days "until the fourth defeat"-a reference to Caldera's three unsuccessful tries for the presidency...