Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...comatose paralysis of a Government which had collected unprecedented powers, but which could not collect its wits for leadership. The tempo of life and work has quickened. Factory managers reported that their employees were "really getting down to it." Even the Tory party, which since its crushing defeat of 1945 had been the most torpid segment of the British scene, suddenly came sufficiently alive to win an election. Just 24 hours before the votes were counted, a TIME correspondent in London had reported: "The Tories are less certain of not winning...
...from Marie Antoinette, Cripps drily said: "The public must expect many fewer and much less attractive cakes and buns." He has eliminated all imports of U.S. tobacco, and faced a storm of protest over the ban on gasoline for pleasure driving. This issue brought the Labor Government close to defeat last week in Parliament: at a very late session, when many weary Laborites had gone home, the Tories called for a vote in which Labor squeaked through...
Particularly outstanding, even in defeat, was the Orange and Black's defensive line which will start today if Harvard receives. Dan Williams and Bill Koch, both 200-pounders, man the tackles with Lon Palin and Jim Granbery at guards. Frank Perantont, Princeton's candidate for All-Eastern honors as center, backs up the forward wall with Charlie Brown, another defensive specialist...
Most of the men scheduled to see heavy duty against the Crimson played in last tall's 13-12 defeat. Among those are George Franke, a scorer in that game who will probably share fullback duties with John Powers, Princeton's leading rusher...
Both elevens, already hung with three losses this year, will be gunning for this triumph as a possible turning point in a disappointing season; and for the Bengals the contest will also provide a luscious opportunity to avenge last year's desperate 13 to 12 defeat. Rutgers, Cornell, and Pennsylvania have toppled the Orange and Black earlier in the season, but a comparison of the 13 to 7 Rutgers-Princeton tally with the Cantabs '31 to 7 shellacking puts the invaders at least 6 points in front in the bookies lineup...