Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...festivities erupted again, but this time in a relatively subdued fashion. Italy had been expected to defeat Poland, and they had dominated the game throughout. In contrast, against Brazil the Azzuri had pulled off a victory which few had expected--and in a thrilling fashion no less...
...major surprises, no great disruption to the party system. It was true the Christian Democrats nearly equalled the landslide victory of Kontad Adenauer in 1957, they failed to acquire an absolute majority which would have enabled them to rule without a coalition. The Social Democrats did suffer the worst defeat since 1961, but then they had been in power for 13 long years, and some decline in influence was to be expected Moreover, the small liberal Free Democratic Party recoiled from its calamitous showings in recent local elections and returned to the Bundestag with a respectable 6.9 percent...
...seat House of Representatives (an approximate swing of 22), Hawke and his Laborites ended the 7½-year reign of Incumbent Malcolm Fraser and his Liberal/ National Party coalition. Fraser, a three-time winner whose majorities in 1975 and 1977 were the largest in Australian history, tersely conceded defeat. Then, pale and close to tears, he stunned supporters by announcing his immediate resignation as Liberal leader...
Harvard's 4-1 defeat of Providence, the East's regular-season champion, was more than just the climax to one of its best-ever ECAC campaigns. It also capped a five-year ascent from two of the most horrendous seasons in Crimson history in 1978-79 and '79-80, to a mediocre finish the next year, to a runner-up playoff finish last year, to Harvard's championship this year...
...have so many Southerners running so soon after the defeat of Jimmy Carter seems surprising. But the face and constituency of the Democratic Party are changing with the withdrawal of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D. Mass.), Sen. John Glenn (D-Ohio) and former Vice President Walter Mondale are the only candidates from the traditional industrial Northeast and Midwest party base Historically, the South has been the other base of the party, dutifully casting its electoral votes in the Democratic column in most Presidential elections. (The exceptions were 1964, when most of the Deep South voted for Gold water...