Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...advertising meth ods proudly displayed Fire Prevention Week signs, urging citizens to "keep your home burning." Habit. In Baltimore, Arthur Jackson left home and a bitter farewell note to his wife explaining that he was sick & tired of her and the four children, signed himself "your loving husband." Defeat. In Malden, Mass., C. Edmund Snook resigned as executive secretary of the Northeast Essex housing development council, explained that he couldn't find a place to live...
Concluded Pollster Roper: "Governor Dewey is not a surefire bet to win the presidency but he will be a hard candidate for the Democrats to defeat. Perhaps his greatest weakness, from the long-term standpoint of the Republican Party, is his lack of appeal to young voters. His greatest strengths are his record of efficient administration, his own strength in the Middle West and Warren's strength on the West Coast...
...obviously it was all over. Jim Duff moved for the recess, seconded by Bill Knowland. The coalition could pull itself together and, if not stave off defeat, arrange things for an orderly surrender...
...face of it, no one knows how the Western powers are going to hold Berlin. In a deeper sense, the Russians have already lost it. A great power that is reduced to the savage expedient of trying to starve a city into submission has confessed its abject defeat in trying to win the people's allegiance. The battle has fallen from the level of the brain to the level of the belly; above the belly, the Russians no longer pretend to offer anything...
...pass on this sort of socialism in action. Result: 1) the CCF lost 16 seats in the house, slashing its total from 47 to 31 (Liberals picked up 15 seats for a total of 18, Tories one); 2) a drop from 53% to 47% of the popular vote; 3) defeat of the two cabinet ministers most directly concerned with the socialization projects. Even though the CCF was still in power, its prestige had been hard hit. Jeered the anti-socialist Regina Leader-Post: "Mr. Douglas has been given the benefit of the doubt...