Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...makeshift camps around Israel's borders from Gaza to Aleppo, they have lived-nearly 1,000,000 of them-in squalor and bitterness. Israel stubbornly refuses to take them back. The Arab countries just as stubbornly refuse to resettle them, on the grounds that this would be accepting defeat at the hands of Israel...
...happened? Many Middle East specialists thought that refugee disenchantment with Nasser began with the Israeli attack into the Sinai. There, before the eyes of 220,000 refugees in the Gaza Strip, their posturing champion, who was to lead the refugees back to their homeland, went down to abject defeat before the Israeli army. To every refugee came the sobering realization that no Arab leader was going to force Israel into the sea and restore them to their lands...
Encouraged by Nasser's loss of prestige as a result of his military defeat, Jordan's Hussein cracked down hard on Egyptian and Communist agents among his country's half-million refugees and launched a campaign to propagandize the refugees on behalf of the United Nations in general and the U.S. in particular. The main line of exposition: You are obviously better off than before. The Communists want to turn you over to the Russians, and nobody knows how the Russians would be. Let's give the Americans a chance to show what they...
...prolific chronicler of Dixie doxies and other low-lifers, Author Erskine (Tobacco Road) Caldwell, was asked by syndicated Columnist-Inquisitor Mike Wallace: "Will sex defeat segregation [in the South]?" Observer Caldwell not only replied yes, but answered so positively that he may be suspected by some Southerners of being a cryptocarpetbagger. His prophecy: "Eventually you'll have an amalgamation of the two races in the South. Nature itself knows no distinctions between human beings, no matter what language they speak or what color their skin is. The racial conflicts in the South will eventually and quietly be dissolved...
...varsity squash team went down to its second defeat of the season yesterday, losing to the Union Boat Club, 4 to 2. Charles Poletti, number 5 man, was the only Crimson player to salvage...