Word: pyrrhic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These accusations, foreign observers thought, were absurd. For the Chinese to check the Japanese advance at possible sacrifice of half a million lives would be a monstrous pyrrhic victory. Besides, dike-cutting is the blackest of Chinese crimes, and the Chinese Army would hardly risk universal censure for slight tactical gains. But this apparent innocence did not keep the Chinese from countercharging that Japanese had caused the flood by shelling and bombing the dikes near Kaifeng...
...close to him, readers may reflect that her devotion does not do her unmixed honor. Aside from the purple passages describing their romance, Woman on Horseback is most interesting in its account of Lopez' battles. Again & again his rapidly dwindling armies defeated superior forces, the Pyrrhic victories continuing until Paraguay virtually had no men between the ages of 14 and 60. The only stumbling block to peace negotiations was Lopez' refusal to abdicate. To Author Barrett the simple fact that so many Paraguayans perished is proof of their devotion to Lopez. But when readers note that...
Most Rev. Ermenegildo Pellegrinetti, Apostolic Nuncio to Yugoslavia who earned his red hat by a pyrrhic victory. He negotiated a concordat with Yugoslavia so favorable to his Church that it led to religious rioting and the Yugoslavian Parliament dared not ratify it (TIME...
...handle; like Mr. Krueger, he suffered from a continual embarras de richesses, and was, in boom times, hard put to it in his effort to use the money which flowed into his hands. To this difficulty Mr. Insull was, however, equal; there was the Colorado River Dam, and the pyrrhic battle with Cyrus Eaton: The difficulty to which he was unequal was that of liquidation. As an expert in money and banking, Mr. Insull knew that liquidation, on a large scale, is a witless feat which no one who lends money has a right to expect, and, if the demand...
...Bethlehem-Youngstown merger that blasted his fame & fortune. He wanted Youngstown for his own big Republic Steel but the battle was fought in the name of industrial independence for the Midwest. To finance that battle Continental Shares pledged most of its assets for bank loans. The Eaton victory was Pyrrhic. By 1931 slumping stock prices pushed his loans under water and Cleveland bankers ousted him as president in favor of George Taylor Bishop, a semi-retired financier. Cyrus Eaton disappeared from the headlines as completely as if he had died. Last week bushy-browed old President Bishop was making...