Word: defeatists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Says he: "If [we] somehow stumbled on a hair tonic, and it proved to be a good one, Carnation would sell it." Stuart believes that such free-wheeling research is the best way to assure his company's growth. "I get tired," he says, "of hearing all this defeatist talk about how it is impossible for a company to continue to grow under this tax structure ... All it takes to offset them is a little extra sweat, a little more guts, and quite a bit more brains...
...biggest to fall. His Ministry of State Security was merged with the Ministry of the Interior, and he was kicked off the German Communist Party's Central Committee and the German Politburo. The official reason: "Representing a wing hostile to the party, and being an exponent of the defeatist line calculated to undermine the unity of the party...
After Democrat Yorty saw the first headlines, he topped his first story with a demand that Wilson resign. Said he: "We cannot afford to have the Defense Department headed by a defeatist Secretary whose vision is so circumscribed by dollars, profits, and grossly exaggerated economic strain...
...humble, as convincing as humble truth. A Good Man does unobtrusively what the sordid sharecropper novels of the Erskine Caldwell school have never been able to do: it generates enormous sympathy for the Albert Claytons at the same time that it gives them dignity; it refuses to be defeatist about their future so long as heart and conscience have their say in human affairs...
...educated . . . were voicing their own defeatist skepticism about America; and listening to them in the months after the Korean intervention, one realized with dismay how little confidence there was among the forward-looking of our worthiness or our capacity to defend the freedom which we claimed as our heritage; and to rouse others to defend their freedom, if they had it, or to win it, if they lacked it, side by side with...