Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...smugness which has enveloped scientific development in this country can no longer be tolerated. In the conquest of space, we ran a losing race, and did not even lose it well. In all probability our defeat is less the fault of the runners than of their trainers and of the crowd...
...elements which defeated Bourges-Manoury's reform bill last Monday, the idea of eventual Algerian autonomy is anathema. Even though the bill provided only for a possible federative system of internal government in which the European colonials would keep a measure of power, it was unacceptable to the deputies who see France as she was at the height of Napoleon's Empire. This romanticism combined with the unrelenting opposition of the wealthy colonials now in control of Algeria combined to defeat the one measure short of immediate independence which might have been acceptable to the Algerian National Liberation Front...
...Ripening. At week's end all signs were that De Gaulle was right. In the approved manner, quiet President René Coty let the crisis "ripen" for three days, then called in Socialist Guy Mollet, and asked him to form a government. When Mollet admitted defeat, Coty turned to René Pleven, head of the small U.D.S.R., whose chances of success were, if anything, less than Mollet...
...reason for the U.S. defeat in the race toward space is fairly obvious: instead of having the use of big military rockets, U.S. Project Vanguard was forced to depend on the Navy's Viking research rocket, whose thrust is only 27,000 lbs. Even if working perfectly, a Viking is barely strong enough to place a 21½-lb. satellite on its orbit. There is no margin for less-than-perfect performance. The Russians, according to General Blagonravov, used their most powerful rocket to launch the sputnik. Their launching vehicle must have taken off with at least...
...smalltown childhood, sounds like a Booth Tarkington novel as retold by Erskine Caldwell. In the Winsor world, the war between the sexes starts early, and the casualty lists are stupendous. One of the combatants is Ruby, who at 16 already has "a rather sagging and accessible look, as if defeat would be natural to her." Ruby wanders into a blackberry patch with Frank, a "strange amalgam of cruelty, license, fear, bombast and bullying." Then there is Vivian, who never does find her rich old man. Instead, she gets slapped around by a sailor. "His body closed...