Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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House members rejected a similar measure last week. However, they approved the new bill 232 to 188 after treaty supporters argued that defeat of the bill might cause problems in Panama...
Cornell opened with a pleasing visit to Philadelphia, where it embarrassed Penn, 52-13, in the most one-sided defeat of the Quakers in a long series between the two teams...
...Democrats who turn out to vote if Kennedy is at the top instead of Carter. Democratic Senators, in particular, feel endangered. Next year 24 of them are up for re-election out of the 34 seats at stake, and many are the kind of liberals who went down to defeat in 1978. It is even conceivable that the G.O.P. might win control of the Senate in 1980 or '82. Democrats have such recurring nightmares as finding Strom Thurmond the head of the Senate Judiciary Committee, while the current chairman, Kennedy, becomes merely the ranking minority member...
...same sensitivity and emotional impetuosity that defeat her make her writing so effective. The book's disjointedness is at times a very deliberate reflection of Didion's own reactions to the years she describes. Her first essay, "The White Album," breaks into 15 vignettes; she cuts from image to image, splicing and assembling them. She views the '60's themselves as a series of improvisations on a discarded, script, in a passage that reflects the tone of both the era and her book...
...that we have no possibilities. If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor. We can only defeat ourselves. The kind of world in which we want to live is largely...