Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, the fortress toppled. In its own historic stronghold, Labor suffered a smashing and totally unexpected defeat-the first serious setback since it came to power in July...
...competitions. When World War II broke out, he had eagerly joined the French army. But all spring and summer in 1940, he marched endlessly over the roads of France, without so much as seeing an enemy to fire at. He returned to Calais to look with the eyes of defeat on the victors, big strapping Germans who manned the great guns that hurled shells across the English Channel into Dover. In the winter of 1942, he decided to join the conquerors. German Waffen SS sent him south to Paris to report for duty...
...Peiping, heady with triumph, Communist Boss Mao Tse-tung last week pondered this telegram from China's Acting President Li Tsung-jen. No victor in China's millennial history had ever received a more humble plea for mercy or a more complete admission of defeat...
While Peiping rode the crest of victory, Nanking languished in the slough of defeat. From the Nationalist capital TIME Correspondent Dwight Martin cabled...
...more disturbed by the new words than by the old things they signify, nationalists and lingual purists have long resisted the verbal invasion, to less & less avail. Last week, admitting defeat on the spoken front, a group called the Commission for the Preservation of Spanish launched a last-ditch counteroffensive by invoking a long-dormant law regarding billboards...