Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much the defeat in the November elections (the Republicans were used to defeat) but the direful question: What was wrong with the Republican Party? Nobody knew. Pennsylvania's Republican Governor James Duff thought the party ought "to shed some of the aloofness we have." Harold Stassen was blunt. "The Republican Party is in a bad way," he said. "It is sort of like a football team sustaining a crushing defeat after having advanced the ball to the five-yard line." What Stassen thought the party needed was "a tremendous lot of rebuilding...
This hardly made sense, since Herbert Lehman, who beat Dulles, was no isolationist but a down-the-line supporter of the Administration's foreign policy. What did hurt the cause of internationalism was the defeat of a man who had a firmer, more realistic grasp of the workings of foreign policy than Lehman...
...election was a crushing defeat for the Communists and their political stooge, the American Labor Party. The A.L.P. elected nobody. Congressman Vito Marcantonio, A.L.P. candidate for mayor who had boasted that he would win with more than 800,000 votes, got only 356,000, carrying only two districts in the East Harlem and Puerto Rican sections of the city...
...Stadium; then the dam burst and Carolina was swamped, 42-6. Already headed for the Rose Bowl, California took a deep breath and breezed by Oregon, 41-14. Oklahoma's split-T formation crackled and snapped to send a strong Missouri team down, 27-7, for its worst defeat of the year. The only one of the four that got a good scare was Army. In Philadelphia's Franklin Field, desperate Pennsylvania switched to a two-platoon system for the first time and made 23 first downs to Army's ten. But Army, an old hand...
...where meticulous Coach Earl ("Red") Blaik spends four hours at the planning tables for every hour on the practice field, organization reaches a precise, military perfection. Squads of specialists, drilling on separate fields and concentrating on detailed battle plans hatched by the commander in chief, can point for and defeat a stronger foe. After eleven months of intense prep aration (TIME, Oct. 17), Army did just that to Michigan. Says Blaik: "It's like plotting a military campaign. I get a tremendous kick out of it." Like Notre Dame's Frank Leahy, the master coach, Blaik...