Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plunged into war with the U.S., it was these same militarists who insisted that woman's place was in the factory. Even geisha girls were rounded up for munitions work, and housewives organized into "patriotic" associations to sew uniforms and make bandages. When the war ended in humiliating defeat, the men were totally discredited, and the young women ripe for transformation into mambo-garu-generally to the distress of their mothers, who had already forgotten that, as "daughters of the earthquake," they too had once been all for emancipation...
...Tribesmen. For Japan's 46,780,000 women, Michiko-san's unprecedented break with ancient tradition is the most dramatic illustration of a change that has come to all of them-the direct result of the crushing defeat of Japan in the Pacific war, the unsettling occupation of the green and pleasant islands by U.S. troops, and the new constitution established by the conqueror, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, in 1946. Since then, strange rents have appeared in the densely woven fabric of Japanese society, ranging from Emperor Hirohito's public disavowal of the "false conception...
Catholic Issue. Kennedy's Roman Catholicism haunts the professional politicians, many of them also Catholics, who remind themselves of Al Smith's 1928 defeat as if it happened in 1956. Like Smith, Kennedy tried to get it talked out early by stating his position: "Whatever one's religion in his private life may be," said he in answer to a Look reporter's question, "for the officeholder, nothing takes precedence over his oath to uphold the Constitution and all its parts-including the First Amendment and the strict separation of church and state." The Catholic press...
...lost in a largely honorific five-year job. Of the 271 Christian Democrats in Parliament, more than 120 signed petitions urging Erhard to stay at the Economics Ministry, and 46 of the dissenters warned that they would vote against Erhard at the July 1 secret ballot, ensuring his defeat for President...
...stinging defeat for Adenauer, the worst he had received in ten years of strong-willed party rule. West Germany had at last found a crown prince to succeed Adenauer when the day comes. Ludwig Erhard emerged unquestionably as the most likely Christian-Democratic candidate for the chancellery in 1961 if Adenauer himself at 85 does not want it, and possibly even if he does...