Word: losers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Globe said: "Never before in a big game has the winning team played the better football in every department of the game or the loser been so helpless to stave off an overwhelming defeat. It was the worst beating the Blue ever has experienced at Harvard's hands and it was a beating which was administered with an exhibition of superior play that was simply overwhelming...
...stunned but still loyal Democrats in the Conrad Hilton Hotel's Grand Ballroom he stood, waving and smiling. Behind him, weary but proud, stood his sons, John Fell and Borden, and his sister, Mrs. Ernest Ives. Turning with true style to that strange ordeal expected of a loser in big American political battles, Stevenson thanked his supporters "for the confidence that has sustained me'' during the time "I have been privileged to be your leader...
There, while aides watched the early returns, Kefauver napped. Finally, in the smoke-filled Statler Hotel Presidential Room, in a maze of glowing lights, foot-tripping cord and people jostling each others' highball glasses, he made the loser's traditional speech. J. Howard McGrath, Kefauver adviser and onetime Democratic National chairman, insisted that his man had emerged from the pasting unscarred, unscathed, even enhanced. "How about 1960?" some of the crowd yelled. Kefauver's sagging face lit up and split into a crescent-moon grin. "I'm just thinking of relaxing for the next...
...Colorado, Two-Time Loser John A. Carroll, 55, whose chances of defeating former Governor Dan Thornton appeared so slim that the Democratic National Com mittee declined to finance his campaign, hung together enough votes to win the Senate seat vacated by retiring Republican Eugene Millikin-a seat the Democrats cheerfully accepted as an unexpected gift...
...civilized than the Labor Prime Minister and, as it turns out, a shrewder tactician. Heckled for such a political about-face, Shaw insisted-in one of those prefaces of his which are more like second times at bat-that King and Prime Minister not only are not winner and loser, but are not even basic antagonists. "The conflict," Shaw asserts, "is not really between royalty and democracy. It is between both and plutocracy." King and Prime Minister are thus equally puppets, while it is Breakages, Ltd-England's super-industrialists-who actually rule...