Word: defeat
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Western Power, Hanson's latest book traces the evolution of this "ideology of brutal frontal assault." His case studies range from the Greeks' destruction of a Persian fleet at the Battle of Salamis (480 B.C.) to the U.S. victory (in strictly military terms: the author acknowledges the political defeat) over the Viet Cong's Tet offensive...
Just days after claiming its largest win of the year, the Crimson suffered its most lopsided defeat of the season at Patrick Gym in Burlington, Vt. Giving up runs to the tune of 23-4 will do that...
BOSTON, MA—Harvard came back from a 16-point late first-half deficit to defeat Northeastern...
...limp and feckless American reaction to these acts of war--a token cruise missile here, a showy indictment there, empty threats everywhere--only reinforced the radical Islamic conviction that America was a paper tiger, fat and decadent, leader of a civilization grown weak and cowardly and ripe for defeat...
...have hoped that he would live on yet a little while. For no death they could devise for him could be as cruel as must have been Hitler's eleventh-hour thoughts on the completeness of his failure. His total war against non-German mankind was ending in total defeat...Seldom in human history, never in modern times, had a man so insignificantly monstrous become the absolute head of a great nation. The suffering and desolation that he wrought were beyond human power or fortitude to compute. The bodies of his victims were heaped across Europe from Stalingrad to London...