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Stevenson and lost
Stevenson lost heavily outside the Solid South ; he won only nine states and lost the Electoral College vote 442 to 89.
Stevenson lost to Lyndon B. Johnson the disputed 1948 U. S. Senate Democratic primary runoff election by eighty-seven disputed votes.
In the 1919 post-war election, Beck lost his seat to Hugh Stevenson as the United Farmers of Ontario swept the Conservatives out of power.
28 boys lost their lives along with the headmaster Charles Stevenson and assistant teacher Charlotte Marshall.
Roosevelt had only reluctantly supported JFK's presidential candidacy after her first choice, Adlai Stevenson, lost the nomination.
He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1952, and again in 1956 when he was endorsed by President Truman but lost to Adlai Stevenson both times.
Simon Pegg guest-starred as Bill Bailey's boss in one episode, an inversion of their roles in Spaced ; Nick Frost appeared at the beginning of the episode " The Big Lockout " to install a new security system for the shop, though lost Manny's attention when he spotted a Subbuteo player in his hair ; Jessica Stevenson made an appearance as a friend of Fran's, who was trying to help her live a healthier lifestyle with attempts to change her diet and get her to exercise more ; while Peter Serafinowicz played a radio broadcaster whose dulcet tones reading the shipping forecast drive Fran wild with desire.
" Stevenson lost the 1952 presidential election in a landslide to Dwight D. Eisenhower.
* 1952 Democratic National Convention ( nominated Adlai E. Stevenson for President and John J. Sparkman for Vice President ; ticket lost )
* 1956 Democratic National Convention ( nominated Adlai E. Stevenson for President and Estes Kefauver for Vice President ; ticket lost )
Harrison and Reid lost to the Democratic ticket of Grover Cleveland and Adlai Stevenson, as Cleveland became the first former president to recapture the office.
Wine writer Tom Stevenson recommends drinking Condrieu within four to eight years of harvest and notes that its freshness and purity can be lost as the wine ages.
* June 22, 2005-Tim Stevenson, who lost to Lorne Mayencourt by 11 votes, asks the Supreme Court of British Columbia to order a new election in Vancouver-Burrard due to 70 ballots that could not be counted because they had not been initialed by election officials.
In August 2006 BBC Radio 4 broadcast a new 8-part production recreating one of the lost early radio serials, Paul Temple and the Sullivan Mystery, which had aired in 1947 ; Crawford Logan starred as Paul Temple with Gerda Stevenson as Steve ( in place of the original leads, Kim Peacock and Marjorie Westbury ) in a mono production employing vintage microphones and sound effects.
In 1978, he lost in the quarterfinals of the World Championships to the great Cuban Teofilo Stevenson.
In the 1986 Democratic primary for Lieutenant Governor, former U. S. Senator Adlai Stevenson III and the Democratic Party selected State senator George E. Sangmeister as the party-preferred candidate, however he narrowly lost the primary to Mark Fairchild ( a Lyndon LaRouche activist ).
It is strongly identified with Adlai Stevenson, the party's unsuccessful candidate for President in both 1952 and 1956 ( in each case Stevenson lost to Republican Dwight Eisenhower ).
It is a credit to Stevenson, his foreman Charles Stewart, and Captain Macurich the landing master, that not a single life was lost during the construction.
Many of the details have been lost to history ; in 1910s, philatelist William L. Stevenson introduced a system of distinguishing types of grills, and identifying them by letter.
At the 1982 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Munich, he beat the legendary Teofilo Stevenson but lost to Tyrell Biggs in the final.

Stevenson and second
Psychiatrist Ian Stevenson conducted much of his research into reincarnation during the 1970s, and the second edition of his Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation was published in 1974.
Actor McLean Stevenson was a second cousin once removed.
Stevenson at first hesitated, arguing that he was committed to running for a second gubernatorial term in Illinois.
McLean Stevenson, who had done so once in September 1978 and twice near the end of the second year of this version, appeared in nearly all of Season Three ( 1981 – 1982 ) and became a regular from the eleventh taped week through the end of the run.
Civil service reformers held out hope for the second Cleveland administration but saw Vice President Stevenson as a symbol of the spoils system.
Locally, the second syllable of " McLean " is pronounced with a " long a " (/ ā /) sound ( muh-KLAIN ) ( as with native son McLean Stevenson ), not with a " long e " (/ ē /) sound ( mih-KLEEN ).
The second requirement eliminated Stevenson and Larkinsville, and the County Commissioners ultimately selected Scottsboro as the county seat.
Bill Stevenson attributed to change there sound by adding to the band's invention of the " Bonus Cup ": " We took ⅓ of a cup of instant coffee grounds, added some hot water, threw in about 5 spoonfuls of sugar, and proceeded to play 10 second songs.
It was based on the Oxford Dictionary of English ( second edition ( 2003 ), which Soanes and Stevenson had edited ).
As a Senator, he was a candidate for President of the United States in the 1952 Democratic National Convention, coming in second to Adlai Stevenson.
Consumer and business-to-business promotional spending did not increase in 2010, declining for the second year in a row — although the drop of 3. 3 percent was an improvement from the decrease of 7. 1 percent in 2009, according to the Communications Industry Forecast 2010-2014 published by private equity firm Veronis Suhler Stevenson.
Rhonda Wilcox writes, " There could hardly be a nastier incarnation of the patriarchy than the ancient, ugly vampire Master ", and Gregory Stevenson places him in the category of " absolute evil " with the second season's Judge ( also Brian Thompson ), third season's Mayor ( Harry Groener ), and fourth season's Adam ( George Hertzberg ).
It is the second film adaptation of a Richard Stevenson novel featuring fictional detective Donald Strachey.
The first was founded in the 19th century by Cannon J. T. Stevenson, and the second one was founded later, by Argentines who were not allowed to play for the QAC.
In 1887, when Robert Louis Stevenson made his second trip to the United States, Saint-Gaudens had the opportunity to make the preliminary sketches for a five-year project of a medallion depicting Stevenson, in very poor health at the time, propped in bed writing.
In his 1881 short story Thrawn Janet, Robert Louis Stevenson invokes the second sense of feck as cited above:
Stevenson attributed the change partly to the band's invention of the " Bonus Cup ": " We took ⅓ of a cup of instant coffee grounds, added some hot water, threw in about 5 spoonfuls of sugar, and proceeded to play 10 second songs.
He was the great-grandson of William Stevenson, brother of Vice President Adlai E. Stevenson, making him a second cousin once removed of presidential candidate Adlai E. Stevenson II.
Despite the show's success, Stevenson began chafing ( as did Wayne Rogers ) at playing second fiddle to the wisecracking Hawkeye ( played by Alan Alda ), and asked to be released from his contract during the show's third season.
Stevenson was planned to become a second school for the growing district, but the western side ( Lake Zurich ) of the district decided to go their own way and build their own district.
This is the second scandal involving text messages at Stevenson High School this year, although the last one did not involve faculty or staff.

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