Word: laws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...position and a previous term as Cook County Sheriff in Mayor Daley's Democratic fiefdom. A World War II tank commander, whose facial injuries left him with a masklike expression, Ogilvie earned fame as a Mafia-busting U.S. special investigator, a fact that helped him win against the hard law-and-order line of Democratic Incumbent Governor Samuel Shapiro...
...Madame Mao, Chiang Ching, succeeded in shaking the position of the entrenched party bosses. But the Guards got quickly out of hand. They began bloody battles with the more conservative workers and peasants and subdivided into factions to fight each other. In an effort to avoid martial law, the government forged a new weapon: the Workers' Mao Tse-tung's Thought Propaganda Teams, which were made up of elite industrial workers backed up by army "instructors." The teams were finally able to force the rival Red Guard factions into "threeway alliances" and to put them under the firm...
...some ways, politicians do this better than other losers, perhaps because they can plan ahead in multi-annual cycles. Nixon's switch from defeat to law to renomination is a case in point. In his years of political exile between the wars, Winston Churchill distracted himself from defeat by tapping a wide range of other interests: painting, bricklaying, authorship and breeding butterflies. At the same time, he never once doubted his capacity to lead the nation...
...often achieve high status in other careers, as did John W. Davis, the Democrat who lost to Coolidge in 1924 and is remembered as one of the country's top constitutional lawyers. Thomas E. Dewey twice survived defeat in the presidential race to resume a prosperous career in the law. Instead of berating the man who beat him, Wendell Willkie went on a global fact-finding mission for F.D.R. After losing the Democratic nomination to John F. Kennedy in 1 Adlai Stevenson gracefully became Kennedy's Ambassador to the U.N. Ex-President Herbert Hoover, rejected for a second term, rebounded...
...refusal to entertain the mere possibility of defeat. Why can't the world's mightiest military power vanquish a tiny and underdeveloped Asian state? Why does it suffer a humiliating act of piracy by the North Koreans? Why don't the cops just go in there and re-establish law and order...