Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Betrayal." After the Fair Deal's high promises at election time, Leader Lucas' sunny discourse was actually an abject confession of defeat. Cried the leftrwing Americans for Democratic Action: "A flat betrayal of the Democratic platform." Anti-Truman editorialists leaped to their typewriters to crow, and to praise Harry Truman's new-found wisdom ("The President has at last seen fit to acknowledge that politics is the art of the possible," said the Washington Post...
...Emperor!" he yelled. "Banzai!" echoed the crowd in a booming roar. "Banzai!" the masses outside took up the cheer. "Banzai!" they cried, shaking their paper flags as the maroon Packard drove past the thin white pillar that notes the center of the atom blast. It looked as if defeat and a confused postwar world were transforming the Emperor of Japan into the Emperor of the Japanese...
Private Papageorgiou and his comrades knew that there was bitter fighting ahead, and many a defeat. But almost for the first time since they began their weary marches, they believed that they would...
...indeed, the Tories went. In the last major election test before next year's general elections, they inflicted a stinging defeat on Britain's Labor government, which was still sore from the beating it took at last month's London County Council elections and other county contests (TIME, April 18). All week, on successive voting days, 7,000,000 Britons went to the polls in Britain's first district and borough elections since 1947. All week, the chant of London newsboys sounded to Laborites like the voice of doom. "Socialists lose 15 towns . . . Sweep takes Stoke...
After the first few days of defeat, the Voice and BBC rallied. They called up reinforcements (more transmitters) and settled down to a long, subtle contest. Soviet jamming proved that Voice programs were being heard by the Russian people and were feared by the Kremlin. Now all the Voice's Russian-language programs carry a punch line: "Obviously somebody considers it dangerous to permit the Soviet people to listen to truthful information from a free radio...