Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suffered a great defeat at the Kasserine Pass. Among the reasons General Eisenhower gave for this setback was the 'greenness' of our soldiers and leaders and the faulty information he had to base his decisions on. But the important thing was that General Eisenhower knew why we suffered that defeat. The point I'd like to make is that today, though the U.N. has not reached all its objectives, we, as well as much of the rest of the world, recognize those objectives. And we know that we are green, too-young in thinking in world terms...
...feel ashamed to be back in Canton under the present circumstances of retreat and failure. I cannot but admit that I must share a great part of the defeat . . . I am appalled at the existence of gambling and opium smuggling in Canton under the very nose of the government. [But] we must hold Canton, our last port . . . the last place from which we can use both our navy and air force ... I am ready to perish with the city...
...strike back at Ward, who had piloted the company through the lushest days of its World War II boom. Ward had decided to retire (the board had voted him a $25,000-a-year pension for life). Sherman Fairchild (who still owned 95,000 shares) formed a committee to defeat the pension. Ward was alarmed and withdrew his plan. Fairchild went ahead with his committee. Its new purpose: to oust Ward...
...time ($668,020), failed in one comeback attempt last season and was retired to stud on Texas' 875,000-acre King Ranch. When he was found to be sterile, his ailing front leg was patched up and he was sent back to the races. Last week, after one defeat in a tryout race a fortnight ago, he got back to winning form. In the $50,000-added Brooklyn Handicap at Aqueduct, the six-year-old, clubfooted chocolate stallion looked good as new as he won over Vulcan's Forge in 2:02 4/5, only three-fifths...
...took a national military defeat and four years of German rule to make the Dutch take grand opera and like it. It was not that Holland had plugged its dikes against all music: it has long had fine Bach societies and a great symphony orchestra, the Concertgebouw of Amsterdam. But to the restrained Dutch, opera had long seemed worldly and overemotional...