Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yacht Club is favored to defeat M.I.T. in the annual race for the Harvard-Tech Trophy today on the Charles. Although M.I.T. is the national champion, the race today is over a different type of course than the one where the Engineers gained their trophy. Depth will aid the Crimson in the contest as the team includes six top skippers: Fred Hoppin, A. C. Lang-worthy, John Deknatel, Phil Tierney, John Weske, and George Cronin...
...Repeated defeat at the polls, however, leads to an intraparty struggle in an effort to bring the minority party position into closer harmony with what is by now clearly identified as the broad majority view. Meanwhile, as the majority party gains the policy objectives of the consensus it loses its momentum and the two parties grow closer together, each ultimately reflecting, though with important differences of attitude and emphasis, the general position of the underlying consensus among the public at large...
After the great defeat in Minnesota, Adlai Stevenson said he was "just plain mad"; before last week was out, it became increasingly doubtful that Stevenson could be either plain or mad. Against the wishes of some of his California campaign chiefs, he canceled his planned vacation in the South and flew west to head off Estes Kefauver. By the time he landed in Los Angeles, just 18 hours after Kefauver had finished a six-day swing down the state, Adlai was talking his version of Estes' language. "I'm an underdog," he said, "who has come back...
...downstate Paris (pop. 9,700, and 150 miles south of Chicago), announced that he was switching to Kefauver after checking sentiment in 30 downstate counties. Some excited chattering began after Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey, who had staked his organization on Stevenson and had gone down to defeat in Minnesota, stopped in to see his "old friend" Kefauver. The old friend strolled out, clasped Humphrey's hand and cried: "Hello, cousin Hubert!" Burbled Humphrey: "Good to see you, brother Estes." Then they threw an arm around each other, and vowed that they represented "unity" in a party that...
...installments, both Berlin and London bureaucrats are so mystified that they neither put the secret information to use, nor stop the security leak. And there is a woman. She gets her just desserts when the money which Mason got from the Germans is found to be counterfeit. Despite utter defeat in love and finance, he just laughs an ironic laugh, and in doing so achieves the maturity...