Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After his defeat in 1944, he told friends that he would never again seek the office; the office could seek him if it wanted to. But his staff had carried on an assiduous underground operation, their eyes always on 1948. They cultivated contacts in key states, formed alliances which would be useful later, collected intelligence reports on local problems, local people. The Wisconsin and Nebraska primaries almost made all this work useless. Tom Dewey looked like a gone goose. He was told that if he wanted the nomination, he would have to go after it-and hard...
They smothered the bill with amendments which would make the draft a ghastly joke. The House eagerly adopted most of them. Cried Missouri's Dewey Short: "You have perhaps not beheaded this monster but you have dehorned it . . . Why don't you be honest and defeat...
From the fall of France on through World War II, Winston Churchill was a symbol of the reserve strength of the democratic world. He was the living proof of its power to rise above defeat, of its courage, its humor and its ability to produce better and more intelligent citizens than the fanatics who were trained under other systems. For all his great public reputation, he was the embodiment of the unknown quantity in world politics, the something that exists in addition to all the figures on aircraft, combat divisions, tanks, factories and naval vessels...
...that the final value of The Gathering Storm will be in his picture of the satisfaction and motives of governing. At a time when dictators clung to office because the alternative was to be killed, or when the officials of democratic countries followed wrong policies because they feared defeat in election, Churchill's reports of the actual mechanics of governing, what chances he was willing to take and what risks he could not venture, are in themselves a handbook of political science. They are as worldly as Machiavelli without his cynicism, and as wise as Lincoln, lacking only Lincoln...
Myron C. Taylor, the President's august envoy to the Vatican, also had child trouble. Undaunted by a court defeat last year, a Mrs. Eunice Walterman of Chicago re-entered her claim that she was his illegitimate daughter, this time sued for a round $2 million...