Word: default
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slashing form that has won him six of eight Davis Cup matches, whipped Philadelphia's Vic Seixas, 6-4, 6-4, 6-2, in the final. U.S. Davis Cup hopes received an expected blow when 20-year-old Tony Trabert, national clay court champion, was forced to default a doubles match and report for duty with the Navy. ¶The University of Texas football team, eleventh in the pre-season rankings, over seventh-ranked Kentucky, 7-6; in Austin. Other notable football victories: Georgia Tech over Southern Methodist, 21-7; Fordham over Missouri, 34-20; Michigan State over Oregon...
...abandon Chiang Kai-shek . . . But we must be realistic. We must not indefinitely underwrite a politically bankrupt regime. And if the Russians are going to enter the Pacific war, we must make a determined effort to capture politically the Chinese Communists, rather than allow them to go by default wholly to the Russians." When Patrick Hurley became ambassador, he accused Davies & friends of being "favorable to Communism and against the policy of the U.S. in China," demanded Davies' dismissal. Davies was shifted to Moscow, where "Beedle" Smith regarded him as "a very loyal and very capable officer of sound...
...They had, by their aggression, hurt their chance for gains most of the West had been ready to hand them only a few months ago by default-possession of Formosa and membership in the U.N. Even Britain, which had insisted on Red China's right to both, even while Britons were being killed in Korea, decided last week to side with the U.S.-at least for the present. Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison told the House of Commons: "In view of [Red China's] persistence in behavior which is inconsistent with the purpose and principles of the United Nations...
Nevertheless, Author Nichols now finds the old Puritan tradition doing poorly in the U.S. compared to a vigorous, transplanted Roman Catholicism. In law, education, labor unionism, social service and foreign policy, he writes, the influence of the Protestant majority shows signs of going down by default before the positive, well-organized programs of U.S. Roman Catholicism...
...their conception of America is to shout louder than the Communists about injustices and persecutions, even when they are practiced on people who may be guilty of crimes. If we begin to associate "Communist cause" with "bad cause" we shall lose much of our capacity for self-improvement and default the propaganda war to the who have no real interest in self-improvement...