Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HUMPHREY-TED KENNEDY. A Harris poll showed that a Humphrey-Kennedy ticket could easily defeat Nixon and Percy, Rockefeller and Reagan. Ted Kennedy would reconcile many of his brother's former supporters to the Vice President's cause...
Pressing the Attack. Prime Minister Harold Wilson, elated by the unexpectedly narrow defeat, nonetheless pressed the attack on their lordships. He sidetracked an interparty commission on reform of the House of Lords set up last December and promised early introduction of a government bill that would cut the Lords' delaying powers to perhaps three months. "Most of its members," he said scornfully, "sit by the right of succession from some near or distant ancestor...
Inadmissible Evidence progresses through what James Joyce called "epiphanies": episodes of cumulative revelation. The witnesses called up for Maitland's defense damn him. They are the reproofs of his decay, shadowy chroniclers of loss, rejection, betrayal and defeat. His upbraided, put-upon clerks are walking legal briefs, drawn up against Maitland's corrosive contempt for his work. His wife (Eleanor Fazan) attests Maitland's bankrupt marriage. He resorts to his sage and patient mistress (Jill Bennett), not to exchange the gift of self but to flee from self. His casual office couchmates simply represent a frantic release...
...provides yet another unedifying glimpse behind the Senate caucus-room scenes. More interesting is his sentimental portrait of the off-camera McCarthy. Here is Joe hiding four dozen toys for visiting children; Joe eating cheeseburgers in fancy restaurants; Joe giving a plane ride to an antagonistic correspondent; Joe, in defeat after censure, slumping in a chair to watch a TV soap opera...
With the atmosphere in the Middle East more tense and hostile than at any time since the war last year, the Arabs were proving far easier for the Israelis to defeat than to discourage-and peace in the troubled area seemed as far away as ever...