Word: crushed
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With its lineup split between the Jumbos, the nation's 13th-ranked team, and the Engineers, the Crimson men's squash team (8-0 overall, 4-0 Ivy) still managed to crush both its local foes, 9-0. In fact, Harvard did not lose a single game all afternoon, notching a shutout tally...
...Lithuanians' reply: We are stronger than you because we have historical justice on our side. We are also strengthened by your own promises to govern democratically and to forswear the principle that might makes right. Therefore you cannot crush...
...breaks out in the Middle East as the Western powers attack an ambitious Arab dictator. The Soviet Union, threatened by revolution within its empire, takes advantage of the Middle East crisis to crush the rebellion. No, that was not just last week's news in the Persian Gulf and the Baltics; it was what happened during one tragic week late...
...Suez attack encourage or enable the Soviets to crush Hungary? In his memoirs, Khrushchev talks of defending Hungary from "counterrevolution," but he more candidly told an ally that he had to act, or the West "will say we are either stupid or soft." But would he actually have done it if the West had not been divided and distracted by the Suez events? Or to put it another way, what did Mikhail Gorbachev last week consider to be the lessons of 1956, and how do they apply to the Baltic states' demands for independence...
...Lithuania, or can plausibly deny a direct role, is irrelevant. He was responsible. It is his policy to refuse demands for sovereignty and independence that have arisen in non-Russian regions and Russia itself. It has been his practice, when he feels it necessary, to use military force to crush them. Besides, if Gorbachev was not responsible, does that mean he has lost control to the conservatives in the army and the KGB and is being forced to front for their demands for order? U.S. analysts doubt that. "Gorbachev is a hostage to his own policy," says Robert Legvold, director...