Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strategic interest in Korea, opposed taking any risks, however minor, which might extend the war to Europe. Unprepared for limited war, "we thought we could not afford to win in Korea, despite our strategic superiority, because Russia could not afford to lose." Kissinger contends that a decisive Red Chinese defeat in Korea would probably not have brought an all-out war; instead, the Soviet Union might have coldly reconsidered expending its resources to help a bungling ally. In any case, the Sino-Soviet alliance would have been severely strained. But during the long Korean stalemate, "our traditional insistence on divorcing...
...worked sternly, and she finished among the top ten in the graduating class. Four or five times a week, Dr. Eaton practiced tennis with her. "I tried to show Althea how to be a lady on the court," he says, "but she was still unable to accept defeat with grace. If I ran up a 4-1 lead, she'd just quit. Anyone who could get' a lead on her could beat...
...price of bread-are headed up. Steelmakers have announced plans to raise prices 4.5%, government employees are pressing for a 10% pay boost. Taking to the radio, Economist Gaillard called for more civic spirit and warned that "if labor and management insist" on such demands, "they will be defeating all our efforts. Our defeat will be theirs...
...Chen-Yah, Hong Kong publisher, speaking on the attitudes of overseas Chinese, forsaw a decline in communist sentiments and "an eventual defeat of communism in China and South-East Asia as a whole." At present however, he admitted there is "a limit to what the overseas Chinese can do "to bring this about...
...Last week in Manila, as the last of 1,300 delegates to Garcia's (and Magsaysay's) Nacionalista Party convention packed up to go home, Garcia had the presidential nomination in his pocket (with 888 votes on the first ballot). At Garcia's feet lay the defeated Nacionalista paladins who had sought to deny him the nomination, including Nacionalista Party Boss Eulogio ("Amang") Rodriguez, Garcia's onetime mentor, who went down to defeat with 69 votes, and bitter, professionally anti-American Claro Recto, Magsaysay's most implacable enemy, who won a humiliating 14 votes...