Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Suppressed Report. Had Nationalist China been a hopeless cause? If so, U.S. policy apparently made a mad marriage with despair and defeat many years ago, and wasted billions on the dowry. But the State Department's own record raised doubt that this was always so. After V-J day, it concedes, China's economic situation was "surprisingly good and contained many elements of hope." As late as 1947, the Nationalists were "at the very peak of their military successes...
Much of the picture's force comes from its flat-and often flatfooted-insistence on telling the story straight. Its dirty children, dilapidated porches and stuffy hall bedrooms are authentically grimy; its dialogue often catches the nagging overtones of everyday frustration and defeat. But its brightest achievement is the fresh, engaging and often stirring performances of its two young principals, both newcomers to the screen. Sally Forrest, though she often recalls Producer Lupine's own lush style of acting, has range and depth. So has Keefe Brasselle, who looks something like a lankier Montgomery Clift. For a movie...
...nothing the Speaker could do or say was going to save Harry Truman from another defeat. The rebellious House was out to kill the Administration's spectacular Brannan farm plan (TIME, April 18). And to make the chase more annoying, some of Sam Rayburn's most stalwart followers were leading the posse...
...handful of French units that showed up well amid general disaster; he hurled the Germans back six times before the crumbling line on his left flank forced the French command to order his retreat. He retreated fighting. Yet he found time to analyze the causes of the French defeat and to apply the lessons in practice. By picking up stray trucks and equipment wherever he could, he managed to reorganize his units into some semblance of a motorized division with greatly strengthened fire power...
Tanaka: "As Premier Yoshida has said, 'No country with brains stays a colony; America was a colony once.' Many things are now decided by the American occupation authorities, but that is the price of defeat. America is helping...