Word: defeatists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opportunity to prove his worth to the party. In support of their position, they point to the 1952 defeat which they blame largely on Stevenson's association with the Truman record. If they had any doubts, Truman settled the matter last August when he said, "Stevenson is too defeatist to win." As if that were not enough, he added that Stevenson was allied with "Reactionaries." The topper came a few weeks ago when Truman spoke in defense of Alger Hiss. For these remarks, Truman's opponents say, he can never be forgiven, but can he ever again be useful...
...Publisher William Randolph Hearst Jr., Truman said Stevenson "should have been taken off the platform" when, in his 1952 acceptance speech, he mentioned the possibility of a Democratic defeat. "In politics," snapped Harry Truman, "the other fellow's wrong and you're right. You cannot have a defeatist attitude." Later that day, dictating a statement to newsmen, Truman said he was convinced Stevenson "could not carry a single state in addition to what he did carry" in 1952.* At a press conference next morning, Truman went all the way. Adlai Stevenson, he said, lacked fighting spirit and stood...
Decimal Close. Carol, though, was no defeatist. She skated all-out in the free figures in an effort to overtake Tenley, and thrilled the crowd with a four-minute repertory of spins, splits, axels and loops (the same one that won the world title at Garmisch). She had never done better. But Tenley Albright also was in top form; the ankle she injured before the Olympics was healed. Her spectacular mazurka, witches' jump followed by a drag, and an Axel Paulsen jump, were woven into a pattern of almost unbelievable perfection. The final score was decimal close...
...essay called "The Harm that Good Men Do." In this book, that is also the theme of Roman Catholic Convert Greene. He saw the French debacle in Indo-China as correspondent for LIFE and the London Sunday Times. Out of Saigon, he wrote of the doomed Vietnamese, the touchy, defeatist French and their absurd allies like the Caodist "Pope," who had female cardinals and canonized Victor Hugo. Most significantly, he wrote in his diary: "Is there any solution here the West can offer? But the bar tonight was loud with innocent American voices, and that was the worst disquiet...
...static infantry. Above all, he knew that Hitler was not Kaiser Wilhelm I, "the old gentleman who took Alsace Lorraine from us," but a modern Genghis Khan. He knew that Laval, "the Robert Walpole* of the rabble," was squalid and detestable; that Pétain was a defeatist who had to be "kicked into" his victories in World War I, and in World War II, in the absence of all effective French arms, could only snuffle about the lack of carrier pigeons. But filling the canvas with idiots, crooks and poltroons has the strange effect of diminishing Reynaud...