Word: defeatists
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...Chinese official vices-have hampered China in waging her war almost as much as lack of guns and ammunition. Japan having seized most of China's coastline and the Chinese having been driven far westward, it was in character that some of China's leaders should turn defeatist and respond to the lure of Japanese offers of position and gold...
When "You Can't Take It With You" hit Broadway, it was more or less what the title indicates, a whimsical little comedy, faintly defeatist, emphasizing the fact that shrouds don't have pockets. In the capable hands of Frank Capra, this negative moral was moulded into a powerful eulogy on the value of Friendship. One of the most stirring scenes is that in which Vanderhof (Lionel Barrymore) is fined $100 and scores of equally penniless friends take up a collection in court...
...cows were jostled'' and today Conant has subsided "to the dead level of mass alumni opinion." Sprightly, 66-year-old Porter Sargent criticizes President Conant most severely for keeping as head of Harvard's sociology department Pitirim Alexandrovitch Sorokin, whom he calls a pseudo-scientist, a defeatist and a reactionary. "Harvard is maintaining him in a position of influence where he is misguiding and frustrating American youth. . . . The sociology department is the White Russian...
...terms throughout the afternoon, and yet the team was not ready to call it quits for the rest of the season on the basis of that showing. Nor did the final result have any of the surprise clement that the Princeton tie of last year did. In short, the defeatist atmosphere is gone, and thought of that elusive major victory is now so near that it no longer has the aura of mystery and distance that it once...
...else are likely to feel a white lawyer can do better for them in the courts. "The future is often cloudy and even ominous," complained chocolate-skinned Austin Thomas Walden of Atlanta to the convention. "The Negro, not yet wholly freed from the tentacles of the subservient and defeatist hereditary psychology created by 250 years of chattel slavery and surrounded by a dominant race which magnified and deified everything white, while minimizing, depreciating, if not anathematizing, everything black, which hypothesis was for a long time openly and brazenly supported by the law, and always supported by unbending and inflexible custom...