Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...great to come roaring back after the UMass defeat," an excited coach Scalise said after the game. The booters host Yale at 1:30 p.m. Friday in their season finale...
...Harvard men's cross-country team, bouncing back from its dismal defeat last weekend in the Heps, earned a trip to the NCAA championships with a second-place finish behind Providence College in the New England Regional qualifier Saturday morning at Franklin Park...
Perhaps the biggest development of this week's election came when the Senate's only black member, Sen. Edward W. Brooke (R.-Mass.), was forced to concede defeat early Tuesday night to Rep. Paul E. Tsongas (D.-Mass.) in an election that has prompted many blacks into feelings of bitterness towards white liberals who, they feel, betrayed the two-term incumbent...
...cent valuation really is a serious danger, and 100 per cent valuation is what Massachusetts will get if they defeat Question One. That's because a 1974 Supreme Court decision ordered cities and towns to conform to the law and bring their assessment up-to-date so everyone is taxed at full market?--100 per cent--of the value of their property. If Question One is defeated, that court decision will be implemented and $265 million in taxes will be shifted from commercial to residential property. In other words, a windfall for business and a serious blow to the already...
...spring of 1977, Michigan's Robert Griffin had had enough of the U.S. Senate, in which he had served for eleven years. He was depressed over the election defeat of Gerald Ford. He was upset by his loss of the job of Republican Senate leader by a single vote to Tennessee's Howard Baker. Griffin decided to retire from the Senate and return to his law practice in Traverse City. He then seemed to lose interest in the Senate, missing 216 roll-call votes last year, which placed him in a tie for the chamber's fourth worst attendance record...