Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senate, however, wily Minor ity Leader Everett Dirksen reversed the procedure by stationing a page outside the doors to send Republicans away. Lacking a quorum of 51 the Senate was stymied, and Majority Leader Mike Mansfield finally signaled defeat 1 TV debates...
...mood in Pennsylvania is so bleak that Joe Clark predicts that one more defeat, far from rejuvenating the party, will relegate it to "permanent minority status." He could be right. The Democratic leadership has succeeded so well in stifling young talent that there maybe nobody around capable of picking up the pieces-and that is true not only in Pennsylvania but elsewhere...
...nine are already appealing six-year federal-prison terms for pouring duck blood on Baltimore draft files. Appeals are also planned against last week's verdict. "It was a defeat from the legal point of view," said Kunstler. "But it was a triumph from the emotional, moral and ethical point of view. I have nothing to regret...
Eliot, held to a 6-6 stalemate in the first half, broke the game open in the second half with two long touchdowns to defeat Adams...
...containment of Asian Communism by "any means necessary"), you must admit that the results of our actions have been, in practice, inadvertent genocide. Our original goals may have been decent, although support of an oligarchic dictator is hardly praise-worthy, but we long ago should have admitted defeat; indeed, it is increasingly evident that there is no justification for even having wanted to win. Our cause has never been particularly just; it is now a dark stain on the American conscience...