Word: losing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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However, if Herr Hitler should lose his temper over these dilatory tactics, if the presence of French troops on German soil should suddenly strike him as intolerable, if he should decide to solve a tactical problem by restoring order in The Netherlands, or protecting a minority in Luxembourg, then Sam would quickly be prevailed upon to pick up his musket...
...many clinches and deadlocks was that the 20% Axiom was often ignored. The Lost Battalion, having been reduced from 660 men to 190, was yanked out, given two days' rest, sent into the lines again. Never again can a commander who hopes to win a war afford to lose, as the 254th Bavarians lost on November 5, 1918, in the face of the fifth U. S. Army, all but seven of its 1,500 men. The morale of whole divisions, whole armies cracks under such strains...
Coach Jack Carr was not overly depressed by the team's loss, although it was a blow to lose the first game. The team showed its inexperience, but it also showed definite potentialities...
Yardlings Lose...
...Editor Frank Cobb of the old New York World tells what Woodrow Wilson told him the night before Wilson asked Congress to declare war on Germany: would mean that we should lose our heads along with the rest and stop weighing right and wrong . . . that a majority of people in this hemisphere would go war-mad, quit thinking, and devote their energies to destruction...