Word: defeating
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...candidates of his race did as well in other Alabama runoffs. Negroes managed to win Democratic nominations for two lesser offices in Macon County and for a school-board post in predominantly Negro Greene County; otherwise, 22 Negro office-seekers were defeated, including Tuskegee Lawyer Fred Gray, 35, who had been favored to succeed in his bid for the state house of representatives. But although many whites continued to resist the inevitability of full-scale Negro political participation, there were heartening signs of reasonableness. Amid warnings of violence uttered by embittered Macon County whites, Sheriff Sadler took pains to call...
Aside from Romney, few governors have higher political ambitions, which may explain their silence on Vietnam. Their greatest importance, as far as affecting policy is concerned, will be the effect of their showing on their states' congressional delegations. If Romney, for example, runs strongly, he may defeat all four of Michigan's marginal Congressional seats and sweep newly-appointed Senator Robert Griffin into a full term. The expected weak showing of Governor Rockefeller of New York, on the other hand, may help produce surprise victories for three of four marginal Democrats--a result which would tend to overstate the President...
...troops. Claiming to be "neutral," the U.S. contingent promptly reinforced the retreating and broken right-wing of the Dominican military. The revolution, so near victory, was first blunted, then squeezed into the older portions of Santo Domingo, and finally forced to surrender. The old clique of generals, so near defeat, was brought back to life with rapid infusions of weapons, money, men, and encouragement. Finally, after the political "balance" had been firmly re-established, the U.S. created a provisional government, set a date for elections, and withdrew its peace force to a few strategic cities around the country...
...Marini sees man defeated by his own anxieties, he is still in Marini's eyes a warm-blooded and sensual being. "'I can't make a cold thing," Marini confesses. "You can't change blood. From a minestrone of impressions, a whole world, constructed and nourished, emerges. For me the great thing is humanity." Thus, in portraying man as overwhelmed in defeat, Marini by the very act of making art is uttering the cry of the victor. He has called his sculptures "fossils"; they are, in fact, living remnants of human hope...
...Brauweiler. I was kept in solitary confinement and liked it." Adenauer had been in and out of Nazi prisons since 1933, when Hitler booted him from the lord-mayoralty of Cologne. At war's end, he was a tough, uncompromising democrat of 70, unfazed by the horrors of defeat (he had witnessed the decline of both Bismarck and the Kaiser). When the Gestapo released him during the Götterdämmerung of the Allied advance, Adenauer trekked circuitously through the flooded Rhineland to his home at Rhöndorf, then sat out a vicious artillery duel between...