Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...election night in 1916, Charles Evans Hughes went to bed thinking that he had been elected President of the U.S. He woke to find that he was wrong; victory vanished as the returns came in from California. He accepted his defeat philosophically. He was a judicial man who, someone said, looked "like a Victorian child's image of Almighty God." And history had a judicial role cut out for him. He lived out a public career as a tidier-up of disorder, an impeccable caretaker of constitutionality...
...Harry Truman, a scuttle of ashes: "A genuine if superficial liberal, but so inept that he cannot give effective liberal leadership in the extraordinarily unlikely event of his election, much less in his defeat...
...fast, rangy, young (24) Victor Seixas (rhymes with gracious), a University of North Carolina senior with a cannonball service and a neat drop shot, upset top-seeded Schroeder in the quarterfinals, 2-6, 6-4, 8-6, 6-4, before losing in the semifinals. It was the second tournament defeat in a row for Schroeder, who just wasn't in shape...
...both Tobin and Truman, the deal was good politics. In the Democratic gubernatorial primary, Tobin faced probable defeat by ex-State Attorney General Paul A. Dever. Even if he won, in November he would have to face Republican Governor Robert F. Bradford, who beat him badly...
...Arabs, no less than the Jews, are victims of history. Four centuries of Turkish rule hurt them at least as badly as a decade of Naziism hurt the Jews. Now, in their morning of independence, the Arabs have suffered defeat at the hands of a small, despised people. It rankles...