Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...general election that swept the British Conservatives back to power last October left more than the defeated Laborites worried by Labor's defeat. In a country that invented the political theory of the Loyal Opposition and governs itself by the swing of the party pendulum, what kind of alternative choice is there in a doctrinaire and out-of-date party that had won only two general elections in half a century, and had just gone down to defeat for the third time...
Labor's leader, Hugh Gaitskell, had waged a buoyant campaign that left him unchallenged as party leader. In defeat he felt strong enough to pledge himself to "a vow of silence, self-imposed," while he "collected the voices" about what was wrong and what needed to be changed. But at his middle-class Hampstead home in north London, he chose to consult not with trade-union leaders, with whom he feels uncomfortable, but with fellow Oxford intellectuals such as Economist Douglas Jay, who publicly urged that the party should drop its "class image" and "nationalization myth" and even consider...
...Italian magazine, Oggi, picked up the story of Francesco's 24 years of forlorn wooing, and sudden notoriety succeeded where all the years of defeat had not. Last week Francesco, 49, wrote a letter to the editor confessing that at long last "I have given up, because with women one cannot win." As for Angela, now a spinster of 40, she could not care less. "He didn't appeal to me when he was younger," she said, "and he appeals to me even less now." When told that Francesco had named her his heir, Angela showed a tougher...
...most important matches. Last year at Annapolis, the Middies were able to capitalize on their overheated courts and over-came the visitors, later winning the Eastern Championship. But this year the game will be in Cambridge, and the squash team is hoping to avenge the defeat...
...fourth consecutive win, 14 to 3, as Williams romped 45 yards for the second TD. Then things began to get rougher, as Penn tied the Crimson 12 to 12 in the rain. And three weeks later Yale marred the J.V.'s undefeated season by delivering a 12-0 defeat...