Word: defeats
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Although the Polar Bears are ranked fourth in New England--behind UMass. UConn, and Harvard--Saturday afternoon marked the first time the Crimson has lost Bowdoin in five years. In addition, the contest was Harvard's first overtime defeat in more than a year and a half...
When the ayes and the nays were totted up, it appeared at first to be a devastating defeat for Ronald Reagan. Both the House of Representatives and the Senate voted to override the President's veto last month of a $14.2 billion supplemental spending bill. It marked the first time that Congress had overturned a Reagan veto of an economic measure,* and it did so in impressive numbers: the vote in the House was 301 to 117-22 more than the two-thirds needed for an override; in the Republican-controlled Senate the tally was 60 to 30, exactly...
Unhappy with the Senate vote, White House advisers nonetheless tried to make a virtue of the defeat. If Reagan had only lost in the Democratic-controlled House, these aides argued, the vote could easily have been turned to the advantage of the President, and his party, in this fall's campaign. Reagan could have been portrayed as the tightfisted Chief Executive doing battle with a spendthrift Congress. Even though the action in the Republican Senate seems to undermine that strategy, Reagan's advisers insist that their boss intends to stick with that theme on the campaign trail. "Instead...
...have been, gives us heroes and prototypes, our models and cautions. But the past contains the future as well; that is, whatever was once wished for and realized now resides in the past. One looks back in order to recollect one's hope, not only the defeat of one's hope. Otherwise there would be no new nations anywhere...
...squad is going to realize Haggerty's goal of a league championship, it will have to defeat the likes of Dartmouth, Yale, and last year's Heps' champion Princeton...