Word: pyrrhic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pyrrhic victory for Avery, for the meeting did give 43-year-old Challenger Wolfson part of what he had come for: public proof that 81 years had dulled the once razor-sharp mind of Sewell Avery. It would be invaluable ammunition for the onslaught Wolfson plans to make again next year...
According to Trendex, CBS's big show, Best of Broadway, outscored its competition, NBC's This Is Your Life, 23.9 to 19.9. But it was a Pyrrhic victory, for This Is Your Life was showing-for the third time-its year-old episode dealing with Singer Lillian Roth's recovery from alcoholism. Hubbell Robinson, CBS vice president in charge of TV programming, conceded the rating was "not as overpoweringly high as we had hoped." He added: "It seems to me that we're going to find out whether the public will buy these things. I hope...
...brown-haired Miss Donnis Martin, head of the Winthrop classics department, has always made sure of. This year she started the program off with a battle of wits, set eight quiz kids to answering such questions as: "What did Caesar say when he crossed the Rubicon? What is a Pyrrhic victory? What is the name of the three-headed dog that guarded Hades?" After that came a Latin movie about the Second Punic War, then a Plautus play called The Twins from Syracuse, and a rendering of the Marine song that no marine would ever recognize (Ab aulis Montezumae Tripolis...
...week Rebel Nye moved up front again. By the narrowest of squeaks, the Laborites in Parliament voted him into the twelfth place (out of twelve) in the Opposition's "shadow cabinet," which faces the real cabinet across the open floor of the House of Commons. It was a Pyrrhic victory for Nye, for as one of Labor's official Parliamentary spokesmen, sitting on the front bench Nye would now have to preserve at least a semblance of party unity, behave politely to Opposition Leader Attlee and save his insults for Prime Minister Churchill, whom he once described...
Last week, fed up with the turmoil he created, Restrepo resigned. But it was a kind of Pyrrhic victory for Barrio Antioquia's defenders. Said the suburb's Padre Abel Diez, who had fought the red-light invasion: "There were insults; they threw rocks at my house and I could never sleep. We closed the church today. The decent people will have to leave...