Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...talks will ultimately have to reflect the harsh reality of the battlefield, and that reality may be the one that now prevails: a standoff. The U.S. cannot expect to get the kind of settlement it would if the enemy had been routed or were in any immediate danger of defeat. Thus, in all likelihood, some provision will eventually have to be made to give the Communists representation in a Saigon government, presumably through elections. The sticking point, of course, is how to include them without condemning the South to an inevitable Communist takeover...
...seldom had a more unpopular government than that of Prime Minister Harold Wilson's - or one so entrenched despite its low standing. After months during which its vote and its esteem from Britons have steadily declined, the Labor Party last week suffered its most extensive and embarrassing defeat...
Nationalist Obsessions. In particular, Harold Wilson's government met humiliating defeat in Scotland, long a stronghold of Labor strength. There, instead of losing to the Tories, Labor was beaten chiefly by the Scottish Nationalist Party, a party so weak a year ago that it amounted to little more than hope in the minds of its 60,000 members. Even last fall, when the Scot-Nats elected Mrs. Winifred Ewing, 38, a lawyer and mother of three, as their first member in Parliament since 1945 (TIME, Nov. 10), few considered them serious electoral contenders...
Despite all adversity, the lights made it all the way to the eastern Sprints without a defeat. Last year they had been surprisingly upset by Cornell and placed fourth. This time Anderson was determined...
Commenting on their 6-0, 6-0 whitewash, Nash lamented "that was the most embarrassing defeat of my varsity career...