Word: beaten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Barring miracles, Chiang Kai-shek was beaten. Most (if not all) of China would soon be added to the eleven countries or parts of countries run by the Communists. Control of all China, together with the areas he already held, would place 40% of the world's population in Stalin's grasp...
...filled with books, by no means scientific only. He is a great reader of Victorian novels, and of Trollope and Dickens especially. 'And what about detective stories?' I asked. 'Why, of course, two or three a week, especially by women authors, who have got male authors beaten in this branch of fiction...
...concluded that the German army's biggest handicap in the field was Adolf Hitler's personal direction of the war. Of special interest and excellent of their kind were A. D. Divine's Dunkirk, a brilliant recording of the cross-Channel rescue of Britain's beaten army in 1940, and Memoirs of a Secret Agent of Free France by Remy (Gilbert Renault), the most exciting story of espionage in World...
...printing what other newsmen knew, but had kept to themselves from feelings of patriotism or a foggy sense of newspaper ethics. He also made many a wild forecast -among them, that Marshal Tito would be assassinated in 1947 and, along with almost every pundit, that Truman would be beaten in 1948. He has not yet lived down his 1946 "disclosure" that U.S. troops had sired 14,000 Japanese bastards-though the G.I.s had been in Japan only six months. Such bobbles did little harm. But his campaign to bring the boys home in 1945 was more serious. Insofar...
When the varsity plays Dartmouth, it will come up against a team which has never beaten them before in formal intercollegiate competition. However, the Indians showed good form when they played the Harvard Club and the Worchester YMCA last week...