Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...instance, Bryan collapses spectacularly after the end of the trial. It's a neat trick, since it automatically restores him to the audience's sympathies. But it beclouds the potentially fascinating problem of how a once-great man, three times almost President, would feel after an ignominious, even ridiculous, defeat. The collapse is only one example of the playwrights' constant tendency to avoid exploring deep, if difficult, human problems by escaping to the simple antitheses and effects of melodrama...
Adlai E. Stevenson. Now that he has gone down to defeat for his second time, he still remains the man who will not be forgotten by Americans and peoples of other nations for a long time...
...every Asian member of the U.N. and more than half of its twelve Arab members lined up against the U.S.S.R. to pass the Menon resolution by a vote of 57 to 8. Rarely in its battle to win the good opinion of humanity had Russia suffered a more significant defeat...
This week France admitted the defeat of its hopes for economic control of the Saar, which will be incorporated into West Germany Jan. 1. France handed back to the Röchlings, several of them alumni of French jails as war criminals, the iron and steel works at Völklingen, employing 14,000 workers and producing 1,000,000 tons of steel a year...
Stevenson's appointment to the committee, of which no other members have been named, constitutes a significant step in trying to insure the influence of the group, for, despite his recent defeat, he remains the party's most articulate and commanding figure...