Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...memorable fact of 1956 was not that the Republican Party did badly or that the Democratic Party did well. It was that in state after state, district after district, town after town, voters ignored party affiliations to elect candidates of individual local merit (or to defeat candidates of individual demerit...
...Guardsman Chapman Revercomb to the U.S. Senate and of Republican Cecil Underwood, a party comer at 34, as governor (Democratic House Incumbent M. G. Burnside lost to Republican Will Neal partly because the Democratic administration messed up a garbage-hauling contract). In the Great Plains, farm unrest caused the defeat of Republican House incumbents in South Dakota and Montana...
...Korean war 'he took leave of the Detroit News, to analyze the new enemy's unfamiliar techniques. Out of this experience came Marshall's best book, The River and the Gauntlet (TIME, June i, 1953), an epic description of the Eighth Army's 1950 defeat by the inrushing Chinese Communist masses...
...Oregon, cold-eyed Wayne Morse, 56, the maverick ex-Republican marked as the G.O.P.'s prime target in the Senate races, withstood the Western Eisenhower surge, to defeat, by more than 20,000 votes, Ikeman Douglas McKay, who had resigned as Secretary of the Interior at Ike's urging to take on the bloodiest senatorial battle in Oregon's history...
What made the smashing of free Hungary different from other Soviet depredations? For one thing, the West had been an intimate eyewitness of Hungary's brave struggle for national independence, and had shared Hungarian joy at seeing Soviet tanks withdraw in apparently accepted defeat. Guarded hopes had changed to optimism. After all, perhaps the weak state of the Soviet satellite empire, forcing the Kremlin to come to terms with a national Communism in Poland, might also persuade the Kremlin to come to terms with a national regime in Hungary. Instead, the exceedingly swift development of anti-Communist sentiment...