Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fellow's still at home, that's with his home folks, that's satisfying. As long as a fellow can go along with the folks that have known him all these years . . . he's not going anywhere. I have been elected 26 times without being defeated. I have assisted others 87 times without defeat. Altogether, 110 times in 45½ years. Why should I come back? Any man who hasn't got enough to take a defeat is a poor...
Everywhere bridges slid into the raging torrents, roads melted, walled cities stood isolated, and drenched huddles of refugees dotted the high ground. Hunger was certainly ahead; maybe famine. Nanking officials shook their heads. "This is a bigger defeat," said one, "than any inflicted by the Communists...
...were "gypped," that the effect of U.S. entry was to "[level] the powers of Europe" and make balance, or peace, impossible; that, as a result, a third World War is coming, and that in it, or in the next, the U.S. will suffer "the brutal horror of defeat...
...Considerable & Crushing." De Gasperi sensed the gathering storm. Since the crushing defeat in the April 18 elections. Italy's Communists had been restively quiet. The row between Yugoslavia's Tito and the Cominform had shaken the Italian Communist Party to the roots...
Some political parties might consider a crashing defeat at the polls a good excuse for taking a back seat for a while. Finland's Communists, made of sterner stuff -and with sterner bosses-were more than willing to deny themselves that luxury. It would be downright unpatriotic, suggested Communist Minister Hertta Kuusinen-Leino last week, to let anti-Communists run the country just because they had won the election (TIME, July 12). "We would do better outside the government as opposition," the lady minister confessed, "but we put the country's interests first and therefore insist on taking...