Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...testified, "that in such an incident it would be the duty of the Communist Party to fight against such an unjust war, and that in such a case the imperialist war should be converted into a civil war." Mrs. Fletcher also quoted sections from her text calling for the defeat "of one's own government in an imperialist war," Philbrick said...
...seventh day of debate the Senate had taken on all the rash-marks of a baby filibuster. But this time the opposition could not muster the votes. At week's end 23 Republicans lined up behind Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg to help 45 Democrats defeat a milder version of the Wherry amendment...
...success of Senate 5 would be a big defeat for Massachusetts people in the struggle to gain and preserve institutions for good city government...
...damage the low, thatch-and tile-roofed houses of the Japanese village of Saga, in the Honshu countryside 60 miles northwest of Kyoto. But in peaceful Saga (pop. 2,500), as everywhere in Japan, the defeat shook the complex structures of Shinto and Buddhism which had served most Japanese as religion...
British Field Marshal Montgomery fought and won his battles by the book. His own accounts of how he did it are written for soldiers, military historians and armchair strategists. Normandy to the Baltic was Monty's cool, professional account of his considerable part in engineering the defeat of the German armies on the Continent. Now he has backtracked in time and completed his story of World War II with El Alamein to the River Sangro, a brief, coldly competent blueprint of his strategy in North Africa, Sicily and Italy...