Word: defeatist
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...workers' housing to cripple Germany. Asked to study Cherwell's statistics, Tizard found the damage estimate five times too high. But he got nowhere. Churchill's intimate won a backstairs Cabinet fight that had "the faint but just perceptible smell of a witch hunt." Labeled a defeatist, Tizard was forced to sit out the rest of the war as president of Oxford's Magdalen College...
Thus, Snow concluded, although Tizard and Blackett were right, the conflict in the secret politics of high conferences resulted in their defeat. "The minority view was not only defeated, but squashed, The atmosphere . . . had the faint, but just perceptible smell of a witch hunt. Tizard was actually called a defeatist...
With money from Nessfeness, able Principal Daniel Schreiber brought in one guidance counselor for every 100 students, special teachers for remedial reading and math. He persuaded defeatist parents that their children could become doctors and lawyers, got them to make room for homework. He ushered children to the opera, the theater, atomic laboratories and college campuses. The result-soaring aspirations-was so dramatic that IQs leaped and retarded readers outstripped national norms. This year Junior High 43's proud products are at Amherst, Columbia, Franklin & Marshall, Union and the University of Michigan...
...disputed Kennedy's claim that Cuba is "lost," defended the Administration's Latin American policy. "There were eleven dictators in South America and in Central America when we came in in 1953; today there are only three left, including the one in Cuba." He accused Kennedy of "defeatist talk," declared flatly that "there isn't any question but that we will defend Guantánamo [the U.S. Navy base in Cuba] if it is attacked." Kennedy's riposte: "We have almost ignored the needs of Latin America; we have beamed not a single Voice of America...
...hand; Chang was so shaken that he retired to his home, surrounded himself with hand-picked bodyguards, and rarely ventured forth. And though he courageously continued to denounce the corruption and brutality of the Rhee regime, many mem bers of Chang's own party were disappointed by the defeatist line ("I stand before you a lone duck in the autumn sky") that he took during his unsuccessful bid for re-election earlier this year. Last week, as Koreans asked why Chang had stayed silent and at home during the Seoul riots, his friends explained: "He would have liked...