Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Speaking to the Governors on the night of his arrival, Agnew provided his most candid analysis to date of the Republicans' fortunes last November. He did not dwell on the victories. Instead, Agnew sought to dissociate himself from the losses. "The causes of victory or defeat in a political election are as opaque and indefinable after as before the vote," he said. As for charges that his steel-studded rhetoric during the campaign was a divisive weapon, Agnew declared, "Nothing is more unreasonable to me. What is an election if it is not an attempt to divide the voters...
...remained ever since, first as rulers and later as the subjects of an Ottoman hegemony that ended after the British captured Jerusalem in 1917. The British took part of Palestine east of the Jordan River to create Transjordan as a reward for the Hashemite dynasty, which helped Viscount Allenby defeat the Turks...
...sense that it assured a Communist future for Cuba. But he does concede that "we were obliged to make some big concessions." Public opinion in many places, he says, decided that "Khrushchev had turned coward and backed down," and even Cuba felt that the outcome was a "moral defeat...
...convince diehard objectors, state officials launched a re-examination of the traditional notion that "it is not yet socially acceptable for a girl to defeat a boy." Now the results are in and varsity sexism is on the way out. More than 100 New York high schools accepted the department's delicate invitation to test girls as competitors in "noncontact" sports like tennis, golf, bowling, riflery, swimming and track. Neither boys, coaches, parents nor girls themselves reported any bad effects once initial joshing wore off. Indeed, the sexes seemed to play extra hard to outdo each other...
...culturally. (Given the skeletonization of Johnson, and the limited glimpses of the American white community, this is probably inevitable.) When corruptive social forces are embodied as moustache-twirling villains, what is produced is not indignation, but derisive laughter. Similarly, if a black man is victorious even in self-imposed defeat, quiet desperation is glorified. Sackler's decision to uphold the disproven theory that Johnson threw his last title fight under federal pressure is disastrous both dramatically and thematically...