Word: defeated
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Bowles was elected Governor of Connecticut in 1948, and following his defeat in 1950, President Truman appointed him Ambassador to India and Nepal, where he developed a major Point Four program...
...profound change occurred in the post-Sputnik era, said Davis. "Dr. Killian and his group of scientific advisers managed to defeat the Strauss-Teller position within the Administration, and this led to the present arms control conferences...
...course Vag could have sold the extra ticket, but he never quite had the nerve to post a notice on the bulletin board. The defeat of it all overwhelmed him--to have to admit to some eager sophomore that he hadn't gotten a date for the game. So Saturday approached and arrived and Vag set off for the game with a pair of fake binoculars filled with bourbon to fill the void left by a date...
...absorbing his first defeat of the season, Benjamin ran approximately 36 seconds slower than when he won the Heptagonals on the same course a week...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 16--Chairman Meade Alcorn has won the personal blessing of President Eisenhower, Vice President Nixon and Gov.-elect Nelson A. Rockefeller for drastic moves to revitalize the Republican party after its disastrous Nov. 4 defeat. Alcorn, who presided over the worst licking the GOP has taken in years, ordinarily would be expected to bow out and let another man rebuild...