Word: defeatists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...risk of being called a defeatist," said Alcoa President John D. Harper, "I question whether this situation is likely to reverse itself in the foreseeable future. In fact, Government influence is likely to accelerate...
...make up Australia's greatest fictional creation. Nor is there any doubt as to the embarrassment. White's bleak and austere vision is deeply antipathetic to the semiofficial Australian credo with its jovial good cobbery, manly democratic virtues and no-nonsense sex. White sees Australia, like his defeatist characters, as drifting toward a lost-generation doom of "impregnable negation, where there are no questions, only answers...
Reporters accompanying Barry said that a defeatist attitude pervaded the whole Goldwater entourage. But Barry certainly did not sound defeatist in his public utterances. If nothing else, he was on the offensive. Said he to the Madison Square Garden throng: "It is a fact that Lyndon Johnson and his curious crew seem to believe that progress in this country is best served simply and directly through the ever-expanding gift power of the everlastingly growing Federal Government. One thing we all know, and I assure you I do: that's a much easier way to get votes than...
...nationalistic orientation does not necessarily involve radical approaches to problems, however. Often it helps in defining goals, and in avoiding what many Negroes consider to be defeatist attitudes. This statement, made by the student who proposed the plan above, is a good example...
...nationalistic orientation does not necessarily involve radical approaches to problems, however. Often it helps in defining goals, and in avoiding what many Negroes consider to be defeatist attitudes. This statement, made by the student who proposed the plan above, is a good example...