Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world to understand, connived at his death as it had connived at Lincoln's. The parallel between Gandhi's martyrdom and Lincoln's was close and obvious. Each went down in the hollow between the crest of political victory and the crest of moral defeat. And Gandhi's ashes were not cold before the world had begun to vulgarize his saintliness (as it had vulgarized Lincoln's*) by insisting, against the facts, that there was no vulgarity in him. The world finds it hard and self-shaming to believe that truth can be glimpsed from...
...Could Spit . . ." With independence, Gandhi's great victory, came defeat. India, seething with fear and fanaticism, spurted blood in scores of riots. Mohamed Ali Jinnah, once a member of Gandhi's All-India Congress Party, bolted, saying that the Congress was an instrument to impose Hindu rule on India's Moslem minority. With a notably unmystical metaphor, Gandhi said: "If we Indians could only spit in unison, we would form a puddle big enough to drown 300,000 Englishmen." But Jinnah refused to spit in unison with Hindus, for any cause. He demanded, and got, his separate...
...what the situation called for, swallowed her wrath, telegraphed: "Dear Miss Liu. . . . In a letter you sent me some time ago you wrote: 'In democratic politics election means competition. How senseless it would be otherwise! In American presidential campaigns . . . no one gives up the competition in fear of defeat. ... He who loses always sends a message of congratulations to the winner.' Now that we are on the path of democratic constitutionalism . . . I send you my respectful congratulations...
...defeat was costly to the loser: Field had spent $10,000,000 to learn that a newspaper war takes more vigor than virtue to win. The casualties were heavy: a third of the 360 on the editorial staffs were fired. Most were Sun employees, whose only solace was double severance...
Sent to Spain, Renault made the spy's perennial discovery: that some of his most useful confederates are among the enemy. As a blind, Renault let it be known that despite the defeat of France he felt that business was business and planned to make a movie about Columbus. It was a member of the German Embassy staff who helpfully smuggled a letter for him into occupied France, asking his wife to bring the children and join him in Spain...