Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Then you need to pick up a copy of the Presidential Biblical Scoreboard, a publication designed to help the God-fearing "Christian majority" defeat the forces of evil: the "liberal minority...
...start of the campaign, Truesdell predicted that Vellucci's campaign--which spent only $4000 to defeat token Republican opposition in 1986--would need to raise more than $60,000 to avoid a "grim" financial situation. Truesdell said yesterday in a phone interview that the Vellucci campaign had raised more than $50,000 so far, and that he expected more contributions in the near future...
...Democratic party is hoping that history will repeat itself. In 1960, the Boston-Austin connection defeated the Republicans. They are also hoping that Bentsen can defeat Bush again. In 1970, Bentsen defeated Bush for a Senate seat...
...track of the ones she wore. She walks on the border of his clear mental map, usually there but sometimes not. So did Sasso, proving that Dukakis can combine intimacy with a person and a carefully determined distance from some aspects of them, a distance so great as to defeat his vision...
...time Dukakis took office as Governor four years later, he had been through all the blarney and jokes about corrupt politics, and he meant to give it a truly last hurrah. His integrity was seen as righteousness, which helped defeat him in his 1978 re-election bid; but he got the job done. Said an omnidirectional fixer named Billy Masiello: "If any one man destroyed me, it was Governor Dukakis. When he came in there were no open hands. And the game was over...