Word: loses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attitude of reasonable men willing to let bygones be bygones, even if most of the bygones they wanted overlooked were their own. They came asking for respectability. And they figured that they would get it merely by being there and showing themselves well-behaved. Thus the Russians could not lose. They had to give up nothing to get what they wanted. So they gave up nothing, and showed themselves amiable...
MALENKOV: . The only party boss in Soviet history to lose his job and keep his head. A senior Western ambassador rates him as the "shrewdest, most intelligent and most competent of them all," but his influence seems currently to be in a waning phase...
...Resident General Gilbert Grandval, sent from Paris to bring peace and a fair deal to restive Moroccans, acted like a man with no time to lose. The minute his plane stopped at Casablanca's airstrip, he jumped down from the plane, too impatient to wait until the ramp was shoved into place. In his first week, he fired nine of the protectorate's top French officials, "for essentially psychological reasons"; they were competent, he explained, but identified with the old, unpopular order. To Moroccan cheers, he declared a general amnesty for Bastille Day, freeing 77 political prisoners...
...least 20 Moroccans were dead, more than 100 wounded. Casablanca was under martial law; tanks and armored cars patrolled the streets and surrounded the native quarters. Grandval announced grimly that he would continue the policy of moderation he had begun. Unhappily, for a man with no time to lose, too much time had already been lost...
Moreover, De Sapio has real talking points. Harriman showed last year that he could win an election over tough opposition; he is now operating from the position of the country's most important governorship. Adlai Stevenson's electoral votes in 1952 showed that he could lose in 39 states; since 1952 he has had no sustaining position in public life...