Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...father guessed it was mainly a slow boy growing up too fast. Home again and locked in a special cell at the Nebraska penitentiary, Chuck himself showed signs of realizing that in the end the world had beaten him. He had been gay and insolent earlier; now, in ultimate defeat, he blinked his myopic eyes and became sullen and silent...
Snatched out of school in 1917 to serve in the Ottoman army, Adnan saw no combat in World War I, but made up for that deficiency after the war, when Greece, backed by Britain and France, set out to annex large chunks of the defeated and disintegrating Turkish empire. As a member of the Turkish underground, Menderes took part in a rebellion against the Greek forces occupying his native Aydin. Later, as an army lieutenant, he served under Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in the offensive that recaptured Izmir from the hapless Greeks. (Among the factors contributing to the defeat...
...infiltration of a Western Hemisphere republic. When Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas kicked the Reds out in 1954, he began building a new middle lane in the political road. Last week, half a year after the colonel's assassination by a crackpot guard, his moderate ideas went down to defeat, jabbed by the left and steamrollered by the right in an election which all sides agreed was the freest in the country's history...
...defeat hit not only M.D.N. but the U.S., which has backed Castillo Armas' brand of moderation with some $80 million in aid. Though publicly neutral, the U.S. had obviously hoped that the middle-road ways would stick. Both Ydigoras Fuentes and Méndez Montenegro professed to be friendly to the U.S., but their backers yelped about U.S. "interference" in internal affairs...
Twenty years ago, after a temporary defeat, Bob Young wrote a verse that now seemed more...