Word: losers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vittorio Emanuele set a precedent which has been followed in Italy: as Prussia and Austria went to war, he picked Austria as the loser and attacked from the south. He was soundly trounced at Custozza, but he got Venetia in the peace settlement. When France was prostrate in the Franco-Prussian War in 1871 he annexed the Papal State, which Napoleon had protected. The peninsula was at last united. Proclaimed Vittorio Emanuele: "It only remains to make our country great and happy...
...prevented the 1940 campaign from being turned into a partisan fight on foreign policy, had prevented the kind of bitter post-election fight that might have kept the U.S. from following any coherent foreign policy. Whether Franklin Roosevelt's choice of policy was wise or unwise, Loser Willkie had deprived the Administration of any excuse for vacillation or inaction...
...third Quadrangular League game in a row the Varsity hockey team came off the ice a one-goal loser. Dartmouth's Indians turned the trick Saturday night at Hanover by piling up an imposing 3 to 0 lead and then coasting in victorious by a count...
...Finland had won its war with Russia last winter, its hero would have been Red-hating Field Marshal Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim. As a loser its hero was stocky President Kyösti Kallio, who was so modest that he shunned interviews, who clicked his heels and bowed low before reporters, who wore a knife in his belt as most Finns do, and who, the war over, turned resolutely to the task of rebuilding his country...
...learned his soldiering in Germany; lean, bat-eared Alexander, 57, learned his at France's Ecole Superieure de Guerre. Both suffered the pangs of Greece's sorry war with Turkey in 1922. Out of that defeat came their resolution to do better another time. Often the loser in one war wins the next (witness France after 1870, Germany after 1918). As Chief of Staff, General Papagos saw to it that Greece's 18-month compulsory training for all males between 21 and 50 was no child's play. King George II, after his restoration...