Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Success had had its bitter side for little Willie Pep. As fancy a featherweight as ever tied on gloves, he won so many fights (134 against one defeat) that home-town Hartford, Conn, took him for granted. Willie grew cocky and careless. Result: last October he was knocked out cold by Challenger Sandy Saddler. Willie lost his featherweight crown, but in defeat Hartford began to rally round him and he became a town hero on a comeback trail. The home folks bellowed for a return engagement...
...Willy Loman, who all his life has been a salesman-and never a very successful one-is faced with what he cannot face: defeat. He has learned the go-getter gospel by heart, fervently played the goodfellow game, planted his sons along the broad winning highway, locked himself-and then lost himself-inside the American dream. Whenever the truth has not been fancy enough, he has lied to other people; whenever it has hurt, he has lied to himself. Nor have his sons fared better-neither the boy who loved his father till he found him with a woman...
...plan was the work of aggressive, able Dore Schary, 43, MGM's new vice president in charge of production. Of the projected 67 films, a dozen are already in the can and six are now shooting. The program will "challenge the gloomy prophets of defeat," said Schary, who is being privately hailed by his studio head, Louis B. Mayer, as the long-sought successor to the late Irving Thalberg. There are still "tough problems to be solved," Schary told the visiting salesmen, as they gathered for luncheon under thousands of square feet of improbably blue sky (left over from...
Twenty-five year old Peter Karageorgevitch, who ruled Yugoslavia for little more than a week between his coronation March 27, 1941 and the nation's defeat by the Axis in early April, is attempting to "familiarize" himself with American methods of business education...
...team did best in epee and sabers, and nicked a close 5 to 4 win in foils. It was their second win in two days, on the second match of the season, and it avenged last year's defeat by Cornell...