Word: defeating
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...Still, though they may not have observed protocol-or in some cases the Constitution-it is not so easy to contend that the Chief Executives were always wrong. In the summer of 1940, for instance, President Roosevelt had good reason to believe that American destroyers might prove decisive in defeating a German invasion of Britain; a British defeat would have brought the U.S. into the gravest peril. Yet Congress probably would not have approved the transaction for weeks or months, if at all. Congress is oftentimes hostage to parochial interests, while the President has the national constituency and brings full...
Some Northern Writer. The results, to be sure, were not so conclusive as they had been in the recent mayoral elections in Los Angeles and Minneapolis. Lindsay lost by only 1.5%, and even in defeat has a good chance of re-election in November on the tickets of New York's Liberal Party and his newly formed coalition, tentatively called the Urban Party. Many voters, too, unquestionably felt that they had ample reason, apart from race or ideology, to oppose the mayor on his record, which has had more than its share of disasters. At the same time, more...
...showed the weakness of the S.D.S. regulars and the strength of the P.L.P., which had packed the convention with 700 well-drilled supporters. A motion backed by the central headquarters group, the national office, to admit reporters (after payment of $25 and signing of a security pledge) was massively defeated by 90% of the delegates. The defeat was the first of a series of humiliations for National Secretary Michael Klonsky, 26, and Interorganizational Secretary Bernardine Dohrn, 27. The decision after an hour's debate was to UPI bar the "capitalist press" and prohibit any news conferences during the convention...
...England. Though Montgomery was more popular, Alexander was judged by many to be the outstanding Allied general of the war. In 1940 he conducted the evacuation at Dunkirk; in 1942 he commanded the British Army's fighting retreat through the Burma jungles. Later that year, he masterminded the defeat of the Afrika Korps, and in 1944 he was appointed Supreme Allied Commander in the Mediterranean. As Ike put it: "Alexander was the ace card in the British Empire's hand...
...major defeat in any war is the fact that it started in the first place. Certainly, little that occurred during World War II seems more terrible in retrospect than the blunders that led up to it-not only at Versailles but during the deadly political charade that immediately preceded 1939. Neville Chamberlain tap-tapping to Munich with his umbrella, Hitler screaming hatred from peaceful Berchtesgaden-these cliché figures still have a power to disturb that few living villains can match...