Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Unitarian Leon Birkhead [TIME, Feb. 28] points up a dangerous tendency in American religio-political thinking. One is made increasingly aware that the Roman Catholic hierarchy is trying desperately, and with some success, to sell America on the idea that we must choose between Rome and Moscow; that to defeat Communism, we must strengthen the power of Catholicism . . . America need not go either to Rome or Moscow for leadership. We need a new appreciation for the ideals of true democracy which our founding fathers endeavored to write into our Constitution...
...just enough to defeat the 90-day extension (by a hairline vote of 178 to 163). Republicans and Southerners had not yet given up. Heading into the final vote, Indiana's Republican Charlie Halleek crowed confidently: "I think the Democratic leaders are a little panicky. All those votes were very, very close...
Emperor Hirohito thought that his country's defeat, all in all, had not been such a bad thing. He assured newsmen that the war's results had led to better understanding between Japan...
...ensue. Some will take the part of the British; some will don quaint Gaelic costumes and take up the storied shillelagh. And the famous contests of former days will once more enliven local byways, as the loyal sons of the sod relive the glories of Saint Patrick and the defeat of the Orangemen...
...would be sorry to see. McDowell and his deputy presented a picture of inept and narrow public disservice that grew with each day of the hearing. The case they sought to make against Dr. Van Waters has boomeranged upon them disastrously, and will go down in history as a defeat for mangy and unprincipled politicking and a victory for progressive social welfare...