Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...current profusion of possible Presidents. Rockefeller talks of a "clean break, a clean slate and a clean start." Those are words of challenge. But each of the candidates, in his own way, is after the same thing. For the chief challenge to each is not so much to defeat his nearest rival as the task of finding a solution to what ails the nation. And it is up to the middle-aged political veterans who are vying for the presidency to persuade an unprecedentedly skeptical electorate that they are equal to the mission...
...slim margin of 13 seats in the 250-member chamber, a loss of five or six seats would probably have cost Sato his party leadership and the premiership. Now, with the loss of only two, he has taken firmer control of his party than ever. In a major defeat, Sato's chief opponents, the Socialists, lost at least eight seats. At their expense, gains were made by the small parties, notably the "clean government" Komeito Party (tour seats), which is backed by the Soka Gakkai sect of Buddhists, the Communist Party (three) and the independents (five...
When in November Richard Nixon fell to defeat for what must have seemed to him an unbearable last time, he broke out crying to the press the reason for his loss. He did not cite Humphrey's brilliant "folksiness" on the debates. Instead he quoted from a scholarly work by a Harvard professor which documented in 700 pages America's unkind feelings towards musicians (long-haired, sexual deviates...) and announced that he was entering a career as a concert pianist...
...airline's creditors had forced him to hand over to trustees, Hughes abandoned the suit rather than make a court appearance; he sold the stock for $546.5 million and ended his association with a company that had been among his most cherished assets. The best way to defeat Hughes seems to be to threaten him with the necessity of appearing in public...
...that North Viet Nam acknowledge the presence of its troops south of the Demilitarized Zone. Said a broadcast People's Army statement monitored in Hong Kong: "The peoples and armies of our whole country will continue fighting shoulder to shoulder to firmly inflict ever heavier blows and ultimate defeat upon the U.S. aggressors...