Word: defeats
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...Criswell at 36 is no stranger to politics or to Washington. He was a newspaperman before becoming former Governor J. Howard Edmondson's press secretary. He moved to Washington when Edmondson had himself appointed Senator in 1963 but was out of a job upon the Senator's defeat in a 1964 runoff primary. Jim Jones, a fellow Oklahoman working for Johnson, arranged a National Committee post. Jones was rising in status at the White House as an aide to Marvin Watson, now Postmaster General, and with his help Criswell moved up notch by notch in the National Committee...
Ronald Reagan's reaction to defeat was not much different. Arriving back at his Deauville Hotel headquarters shortly after Richard Nixon had been nominated, the Californian was greeted by milling campaign workers, still carrying placards. The signs, different from those that had been hoisted a few hours before, read: "Reagan for President in 1972." The Governor's reaction: "Oh, for heaven's sake...
...attractive, Kennedyesque Democrat who campaigned against the Viet Nam war. Long carried the inner cities, but Eagleton captured the populous suburbs, getting 211,269 votes to 192,163 for Long and 169,312 for Conservative W. True Davis, with all but 33 precincts counted. Long bitterly called his defeat a victory for "snoopers," adding: "The man who builds a house on public service builds it of straw and on sand." Eagleton faces able Republican Congressman Thomas B. Curtis, 57, in November. If elected, Curtis would be the first G.O.P. candidate to win a statewide race in Missouri since...
...much as anyone, it was Castro himself who ensured Che's defeat by leaving him to wander in Bolivia with neither the proper material nor moral support. James ascribes that betrayal to their longstanding rivalry. Had Che succeeded in leading a continental revolution, he would have emerged the greater leader, and might well have jeopardized Castro's future position. For his part, Che, as the apostle of Communist revolution in Latin America, had little choice but to go to Bolivia. Concludes James: "He needed a revolution far more than the revolution needed...
...liberals in O'Neill's ethnically heterogeneous district put pressure on him--this time to vote for McCarthy or at least against Humphrey. Thousands of letters supposedly were written urging him as a delegate to vote for the Minnesota Democrat. McCarthy forces made moves to organize a campaign to defeat him in the September Massachusetts Democratic primary...