Word: losers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Decided to name liberal Democrat Anthony Akers, 46, a three-time loser of fights for the congressional seat in Manhattan's silk-stocking 17th District (incumbent: Republican John Lindsay), as Ambassador to New Zealand...
Horse-race spectators keep their eyes up front, where the money rides. Nobody watches a loser...
Having kept his voice to a whisper throughout the presidential campaign, Boston's Richard Cardinal Gushing finally opened up on politics-not to hail victorious Roman Catholic John Kennedy but to give lavish praise to the Quaker loser. Said the Cardinal: "If I were asked to name the good-will man of 1960, I would unhesitatingly give the accolade to Richard Nixon. During the recent campaign he never exploited the religious or any other issue that would tend to divide the American people. When he lost, he was magnificent in defeat...
...heartfelt best wishes" to Kennedy and Johnson. When he had finished, House Speaker Sam Rayburn applauded, told Nixon it was the first speech he had ever applauded during his tenure as House Speaker. The Congress and the galleries exploded with the kind of ovation that belongs to a good loser who makes a gracious gesture...
...addition to the Crimson's loss to Dartmouth, opening Ivy games saw favorite Princeton topple Columbia, Yale upset Brown, and Cornell, an 11-point loser to the crimson in the Downeast Classic, defeat highly-regarded Pennsylvania. These results mainly presage a tight race for second place behind Princeton, but they also indicate that the Crimson will be pressed to avoid the eighth-place finish pre-season polls predicted...