Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mudville has nothing on Yale when it comes to brilliant outlooks this Friday, for the Crimson's big winner of this fall, the Varsity soccer team, meets the Bulldog as the odds-on favorite to win its eighth of the year against one defeat. While the football team has had its moments of glory and the cross-country team has wallowed in defeats, wee Scot James MacDonald's booters have amassed the best soccer record in decades...
...wait for the chance to study many German papers from Grand Admiral Doenitz' confidential records which only his defeat could bring to light...
...Department insists on national purification before the flow of dollars. The avowed purpose of Mr. Harriman's project is to renew confidence in democratic government and to build a European buffer against Russia. Any ill-advised plan to cut off every country smudged by Communism can only serve to defeat these purposes...
...quite six months old, risk its prestige and its future by putting up candidates in the October municipal elections? Ten of the twelve spoke against it as premature. The movement, they said, was not sufficiently organized, candidates for all municipalities could not be found in time, a defeat at the polls would be fatal. Malraux proposed a compromise: an R.P.F. slate in two cities only, Paris and Algiers. Then the eleven lieutenants looked at the tall, slow-moving, impassive man who had galvanized and symbolized France's will to live through her wartime travail. He thanked them, flicked ashes...
...next session of Congress where an already drafted bill will be offered guaranteeing Hoover a steady job. The legislation cannot be assailed on party bias, however, because it would also keep Harry Truman out of haberdashery and on the floor of the Senate for good in the event of defeat...