Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both Brown and Rhode Island are known to be powerful in the middle and long distances. Brown, led by the two fleet Toby brothers, throttled Rhode Island last winter after the Rams had administered the Crimson a severe defeat...
Crisis of Confidence. From the hard, gritty North Sea ports to the lush Bavarian mountains, from Germany's iron heart in the Ruhr to the placid university towns which cherish their professors and their poets, the land ruled by Konrad Adenauer still bears the brutal stamp of total defeat. It also bears the pale, pinched look of poverty. The free-enterprise economic policies, put to work under military government, have led West Germany's 46 million hard-working people from near-starvation a long way toward recovery. But the country's economy is still far from healthy...
Germans, who have never shown any talent for democracy, are today corroded by 16 years' dictatorship, war and defeat. They have probably made greater progress toward democracy than the U.S. had a right to expect on V-E day; the many political-action groups which have sprung up all over West Germany, and the high turnout (nearly 80% of the eligible voters) at last summer's elections, indicate that at least some Germans have begun to see that the government is their concern. When Secretary of State Dean Acheson recently visited Germany, the people showed a genuine, spontaneous...
...Brazilian hamlet of Estaçäo de Santa Barbara was just a whistle stop on the Paulista Railroad until two foreigners arrived there in 1868. The foreigners were Colonel William H. Norris and his son Robert, unreconstructed U.S. rebels from Oglethorpe, Ga. Heartsick at the South's defeat, they had listened with interest to tales of Brazil, a vast country where slavery was still a respected institution and a gentleman planter could work his lands in peace and dignity...
...near Cocoa, Fla. with signal success. But this year, massed mosquito formations roared out of the swamps once again to puncture young & old. The Air Force fought back with more DDT, but it could not regain command of the air. The Department of Agriculture discovered that the Air Force defeat was due to a new, tough breed of mosquitoes...