Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sorry for the brilliant, devoted, courageous Lewis Strauss, whose 40 years of public service the U.S. Senate has rewarded with humiliation and defeat [June 29]. But I am sorrier for the U.S. Have the once honorable members of this once august body nothing better to do than bicker and quibble over the appointments of proven statesmen...
Misfire. In late May they moved on Khartoum once again, with four scout cars, lights dimmed, leading three companies in full battle dress. But this time their coup misfired. A motor-pool major refused to lend his trucks to the cause. Sensing defeat, Moheiddin at 2 a.m. left Khartoum hoping to turn back the advancing troops, but could not find them. By then, news of the plot had gotten out. Easygoing General Abboud had had enough, arrested 18 officers...
...Never. When news of the Times interview reached Erhard, he was still smarting at the defeat he suffered at the hands of Adenauer the week before. "This is an impertinence!" he rasped. "The old man has done it again." Demanding a showdown, he went before a hurriedly arranged party caucus the same morning to state his case. Adenauer was conspicuously absent-asked by party aides to stay away-as Erhard rose to fume: "There seems to be a method behind [the Chancellor's] attitude . . . My reputation is to be systematically destroyed." For once, no one stood to defend...
...decades before Pearl Harbor, when the population of Japan was growing by almost 1,000,000 every year, warlords used population pressure as an excuse to conquer or dominate foreign lands. But World War II defeat brought more than one remarkable change. Last week, after six years of study, the government's Population Research Institute announced that Japan's birthrate has been cut in half, and is now one of the world's lowest. In 1932 the average family boasted 5.8 children; today it has under three...
...Hurdler Glenn Davis, who holds the Olympic title and world record for 400 meters, stumbled at the first barrier, suffered his first defeat since 1956, but still ran a strong second to surprising Dick Howard, 23, of the University of New Mexico...