Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said) wanted to bring back the hated tyranny; yet it was he who was setting up a one-man dictatorship. Perhaps Khrushchev hoped to avoid a return to the unprofitable nightmare of Stalinist horror. Yet in the deadly Soviet game of power, victory has its own momentum and defeat its own awful logic. The "lose and live" policy, which lasted while the forces of power were in uneasy equilibrium, might not survive now that Khrushchev is in control. The increasing mentions of the "Leningrad Case" (see below) suggested that Malenkov may not be around long...
...These were good men," says Author Linna of both the dead and the living. Fate had laid the whip of defeat across their backs, but it also released them from responsibility for the future, and they were content to sit back and watch the victors destroy their victory. Says one exhausted survivor when the fighting is over and the politicians take command: "Speeches aren't going to help anything. When your powder's all gone, it's better to keep your mouth shut than to go spouting about the rights of small nations. A dog raises...
C.L.U. leaders were quick to blame defeat on antilabor "smears" and the exposures of labor racketeering by the McClellan committee. But the Minneapolis Tribune had a more accurate postmortem: "The voters want independent officials . . . The overall effect of the election was a crushing defeat for C.L.U. bossism...
...Lebanon, pro-Nasser candidates met a humiliating defeat at the hands of the pro-Western forces of President Camille Chamoun and his Prime Minister Sami Solh (see below). The day had passed when word from Cairo could bring mobs into the streets of Beirut and make governments quail. Instead. Lebanon felt confident enough to brusquely deport the bureau chief of Nasser's propaganda apparatus, Middle East News...
...Havana's Calixto Garcia Hospital, he gave folic acid to victims of tropical sprue, a wasting, debilitating deficiency disease of which anemia is one symptom. Again, patients got better as though by magic. The burden of Spies's current work in Havana and San Juan: to defeat tropical sprue by prevention...