Word: defeating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republican victory in the election could have restored Democrat Chandler's slipping grip on state political power, perhaps let him pick delegates to the 1960 Democratic National Convention and thus renew his one-man 1956 campaign for the presidential nomination. So Chandler did his bombastic best to defeat his own party, blasted Combs only a few days before election day as "the biggest liar I've seen in 30 years in politics . . . a poor little dunce who will have to let Clements...
...once a municipal judge, wears a derby pulled over his ears and high-laced shoes. He put on an old-style campaign and dramatized his complaints about the city bus system by buying his own bus and picking up passengers, once dug up weeds on a local bridge. His defeat was a sure thing...
...available as vice-presidential nominee on a Republican ticket with either Nelson Rockefeller or Richard Nixon. But, he added gloomily, "I don't think it's in the cards." And New York's Mayor Robert Wagner, who had just suffered a blow at home with the defeat of a school-bond proposal, was just as willing to take second place on the Democratic ticket: "Anyone who says he isn't interested would be kidding himself and kidding the public...
...quarter of a ton of Tennessee flesh hit Cannon all at once, stopped him dead. That was the ball game. L.S.U. made twice as many first downs and three times as much yardage, but fumbles, pass interceptions, and Tennessee's alert defense brought L.S.U. its first defeat, ended a 19-game winning streak...
...Mississippi (6-1)-lost little face in its 7-3 defeat by Louisiana State...