Word: defeating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...know these feelings. But ask any of us over here, especially those of us in the hospitals to whom this war must mean the most, and the answer will invariably be the same: "We are right." The Communists have chosen this as a battlefield, and we will defeat them at their own game, in their yard. Peace is beautiful, but we've had to fight for it before, and we're fighting for it now. The only way out is to fulfill South Viet Nam's request to live in freedom and peace. Have they asked...
...fences in an effort to stop an upstart challenger who has steadily led in polls and straw votes. The challenger is not a Republican, but former Democratic Representative Robert Duncan - the same man Morse spurned when Duncan ran for the Senate against Republican Mark Hatfield in 1966. Since his defeat (by 24,000 out of 685,000 votes), Duncan, a gregarious Portland lawyer, has never stopped running, pausing last month only long enough to celebrate his 47th birthday and to announce that he will oppose Morse in the May primary...
...Hughes, 45, who announced his Senate candidacy last month, Hickenlooper has yet to pronounce a preference for a successor between two Republican contenders, State Senator David Stanley, 39, and former Representative James Bromwell, 47, but he has high respect for Hughes. "A powerful vote getter, a hard man to defeat," he said. Replied Hughes, after Hickenlooper's announcement: "It'll be a tough race no matter whom I face-because of the Republican traditions of the state...
...Macmillan won many battles of a military-diplomatic kind, it is sadly clear that he believes he lost the same military-diplomatic war. The Anglo-American conflict was over the grand question of what shape Europe would assume after the ultimate victory. Macmillan had seen the Poles left to defeat and noted Chamberlain's indifferent impotence with contempt and pity. Then, in mid-1944, he saw decisions made that reflected Franklin Roosevelt's obsessive desire to please Stalin and his "almost pathological suspicions" of British foreign policy, "especially in the Balkans...
...right-wing Tory Duncan Sandys, that the country needed "a coalition of ideas" of both parties-an oblique appeal for a national government, as in World War II. The idea got few takers. Despite the hard knocks he has received lately, Harold Wilson is not yet ready to admit defeat. As for the Tories, they are not that eager to help bail Wilson out of the mess...