Word: losers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mitch Silverman was the only other loser for the Crimson, as Engineer Jack Mosinger handed him a 5-2 decision at 118 lbs. Kip Smith, wrestling unlimited, held off his gargantuan opponent Erlan Van Lithejude in the final match and pulled...
...working," Strauss said privately at one point with characteristic bluntness. "I've got talent too, of course, but I work damn hard. I've made a success of my marriage, my family, my business, my law practice and now my politics. If they wanted a loser, they got the wrong man. I'm a winner...
...junta won seats in the new Parliament. So did Alexandras Panagoulis, the would-be assassin of ex-Dictator George Papadopoulos. But Actress Melina Mercouri, an outspoken opponent of the old regime, went down to a narrow defeat on the Pasok ticket in her working-class district in Piraeus. Another loser was Composer Mikis Theodorakis, who ran as one of the candidates of the United Left, an umbrella organization of Greece's three Communist parties...
...lone loser among the pro-impeachment Representatives was Republican Harold Froehlich, who lost to a Norbertine priest and history professor, Robert Cornell, 54, in a largely rural Wisconsin district where inflation was a top issue. The other Republicans who voted against Nixon all won, some by impressive margins. All of the anti-Nixon Democrats survived, including such Southerners as Alabama's Walter Flowers, South Carolina's James Mann and Arkansas' Ray Thornton. Committee Chairman Peter Rodino's margin in New Jersey over John Taliaferro was an overwhelming...
...embarrassing absence of applause that followed Heath's speech indicated clearly that he is now no more than a caretaker leader of the Tories. As a three-time loser, Heath would undoubtedly be ousted as party leader-if only there were someone to replace him. At week's end a group of Tory backbenchers, the powerful 1922 Committee, gave him a rousing vote of nonsupport. Of the 21 attending a meeting of the committee, only two said they were for Heath. However, Heath's own preferred successor, former Northern Ireland Proconsul William Whitelaw, is disparaged by much...