Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What Amadeus sees is, of course, precisely what Author Wiechert saw in his own closing years. Defeat or victory in battle means "nothing or next to nothing," because today both victors and defeated share equally "the appalling fear of the terrible loneliness of the human race." Man's tie with tradition has been cut through, nor can mere political poster slogans bring back what has been lost. Woman used to be superior to man in maintaining the "well-arranged paths." But now, even she has forgotten "the old order of nature" and enters maturity "marching instead of dancing, carrying...
...drawn against the background of what must have been one of the strangest households in the world-young bodyguards filling sandbags and filing correspondence for revolution's exiled royalty. About the house in Coyoacán, six miles south of Mexico City, was the sour smell of defeat and the constant whine of grandiose self-justification...
...center of controversy in New York State politics since Governor Harriman's defeat by Nelson A. Rockefeller last November, DeSapio has been accused of "bossism" by Republican leaders...
...policy of find the enemy's policy and then stop him." The Western powers ought to seek their own, more positive foreign policy. If they fail to do this, they will be unable to cope with the new world situation. "If you don't recognize reality, it will defeat you," she says...
Foster, who will wrestle at 177, placed second in the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Championships last week, With a record of nine wins and one loss for the season, his only dual meet defeat occurred on an illegal hold...