Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clearly was in trouble. By a vote of 268 to 157, the House had just approved a proposal that the industry thought it could defeat: legislation that would set aside 126 million acres of Alaska's most spectacular wilderness. The bill would place stringent limits on how the land could be developed by oil companies looking for new sources of petroleum, as well as by lumber and mining interests. The most sweeping land conservation legislation in U.S. history, the bill would preserve an area slightly larger than California. It would also protect the great caribou herds in the Arctic...
...ascended to world celebrity, almost always on lists of the ten most admired men, a fixture of magazine covers and TV events, the pastor and golfing companion to Presidents. John Connally once pronounced him "the conscience of America." A Graham associate went farther: "Never having been sullied himself by defeat or tragedy, eternally optimistic and enthusiastic, Billy Graham is America...
...Senate for ratification. The fight will be fierce because SALT'S opponents, who believe the treaty concedes a perilous degree of Soviet superiority, are determined and well organized. They number almost one-quarter of the Senate, and need only one-third to block ratification and inflict a disastrous defeat on Carter's presidency...
...vote majority for a relatively unknown Tory candidate. Nationally, the Liberals slid from 14 to eleven seats. Analysts doubted that the Liberals' 1-million-vote loss was a direct result of the scandal. But Thorpe unhappily conceded that it was responsible at least for his own defeat: "It certainly hasn't been an assistance-that should be obvious to anybody...
...What team did Dave Clyde defeat to notch his first Major League victory...