Word: pyrrhically
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...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...
...London, energetic Victor F. W. Cavendish-Bentinck, 40, who was sacked from the Foreign Service last September after his high-flavored divorce trial, won a Pyrrhic victory. An Appeals Court judge threw out the legal separation Mrs. Cavendish-Bentinck had won; he was convinced, he said, that she herself had misbehaved-indeed, with the husband of one of Victor's own friends...
Scores of cities will be blotted out in the first few hours of any future war, and the victory gained or lost in a matter of days. Under conditions like these the best that can be hoped for is a Pyrrhic victory. Though the purchase of peace at any price would be both cowardly and foolish, the goal of world peace becomes the paramount aim to which effort and time must be directed. In this drive for peace the contribution of the United States is twofold. It must preserve a strong and healthy home economy...