Word: pyrrhic
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...limelight. Being sued for $100,000 by Elizabeth Hines, who thought she deserved the position of leading lady in Show Boat, Mr. Ziegfeld promised his daughter a roadster if he won the case. An arbitration board awarded Elizabeth Hines $12,000 and Ziggy, counting this at least a Pyrrhic victory, bought his little girl the car that he had posted. But, little Patricia Ziegfeld will be unable to drive her roadster because she is only eleven...
...Southern gentleman, so kind-hearted that he would stoop within battle-fire to restore a fledgling sparrow to its nest. But he achieved international fame in the profession of killing men. He attacked as he retreated, he retreated as he attacked. His strategy made of his opponents' successes Pyrrhic victories, brought him triumph by losing in the art which aims only...
...acutely conscious that the battleship Resolution was steaming toward Port Said from the British naval base at Malta. All knew that British Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain had just cabled in especially imperious vein* to the impotent Egyptian government. When Zaghlul Pasha rose, all emotion, the Wafd beheld how Pyrrhic was its victory...
During the War, he was noted for a brilliant attack at Verdun which resulted in the recapture of Fort Douaumont and which earned for him the sobriquet of "the hero of Verdun." The following year he led his army into a brilliant but Pyrrhic victory on the Aisne...
Nearly all of us can remember with what savage pride we read of the Pyrrhic victory of the British troops at Bunker Hill, or of the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown. Nor have the wounds occasioned by the Civil War been entirely healed; rash argument and unreasoning dissension still have their way in many an oral encounter...