Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Control was the secret Saturday night as Bill Barclay's varsity basketball team staged a rapid-fire second half rally to defeat Tufts 53 to 42 before a sardinepacked, highly partisan through at consens Gymnasium, Medford...
Lately, Big Jim has been touring the state, fulminating against the "gotrocks" and the "big city boys." He has been angling for the defeat of a "self-starter" amendment to Alabama's constitution which would permit the legislature to go into session without his permission. In this campaign he has used a new trick to get attention: he has literally been lying down...
Until the very moment of public decision at Flushing Meadow, no one knew whether U.N. would approve partition. A two-thirds vote among nations voting in the full Assembly was needed to win final approval. In the middle of the week, defeat of the partition plan seemed probable. Nations like Haiti, the Philippines, Liberia, Greece, which normally follow the U.S. lead, said that they would vote no. Both the U.S. and Russia (together for the first time on a major issue) supported partition. But the very fact of U.S. Russian agreement seemed to free many smaller nations from the necessity...
Kelley expresses trepidation at this lineup's ability to trounce the Crimson, but he said the same thing twice last year, once before his boys inflicted a 6 to 3 defeat on Harvard, and again before they notched up a 10 to 5 decision. B.C.'s season record ran to 15 wins, 3 losses, and 1 tie last year...
...Apple Tree. This Germany over which Russia and the West struggled was still, even in defeat, the key to world politics and economics. Every step in the development of the Marshall Plan made it increasingly clear that a stable Europe could not be organized without revived German production. The Communist grand strategy was plainly focused on eventual domination of Germany, which would almost certainly carry with it the domination of Europe. Thus the Germans were (theoretically) in an enviable position. Theory, however, was not filling many bellies in Germany last week...