Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...defeat ended the Crimson's two-game string of upset victories and lowered their to 3-9 in the Ivies, good enough to tie Cornell for last place in the League...
...July of 1941 President Franklin Roosevelt decided that war was inevitable, and he asked his Secretaries of War and Navy, Henry Stimson and Frank Knox, for a strategic plan to defeat potential enemies. They sent the assignment to Army Chief of Staff General George Marshall, who called in Brigadier General Leonard Gerow, chief of war plans. Gerow turned to the best-qualified, brightest man he could find, a 44-year-old infantry major named Albert Wedemeyer...
...white support 47% to 46%, and that Washington captured 84% of the black vote, though only 6% of the white. Of the 1.2 million votes cast, Washington received 36.3%, Byrne 33.5%, and Daley 29.8%. "When you divide the numbers three ways," said a chastened Byrne the morning after her defeat, "it gets tough." Commented Elections Analyst Richard Scammon: "Happiness is a divided opposition...
...working-class constituency of Bermondsey, a South London neighborhood of brick row houses and dreary wharfs. Last week, in a stunning upset, Social Democratic Party/Liberal alliance Candidate Simon Hughes, 31, broke that long hold by winning 57.7% of the vote in a parliamentary by-election. It was a humiliating defeat for Labor's Peter Tatchell, 31, who won only 26.1%. The result, declared Social Democratic Leader Roy Jenkins, was "a sensational, a magnificent victory that exceeded my highest expectations. It is an enormous setback for Labor...
...choice for Prime Minister. When at last he did join Parliament two years ago, he was, he said, determined not to "warm my bum on a back bench." Hawke's subsequent lackluster performance has cast some doubts on his ability to govern. But after Labor suffered a demoralizing defeat in a by-election last December, the party decided to jettison Bill Hayden, 50, its colorless longtime leader, and gamble on Hawke's double-edged magnetism...