Word: defeating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Besides, there are increasing signs that once next year's campaign gets under way in earnest, Johnson will be the ebullient, inexhaustible, larger-than-life campaigner of old, and considerably harder to defeat than a lot of people now figure. During one dizzying 24-hour period last week, he offered a preview of what that campaign may be like-delivering three separate speeches, holding an impromptu press conference, alternately scolding and cajoling his critics, spinning out visions of the kind of nation he wants to help build, and cracking joke after joke...
...anger that will augment future misbehavior. A skillful mother listens, says, "I know just how you feel," and the child's feeling that someone understands shrinks the anger to a size that he himself can subdue. Reassurance rather than reprimand is often the best medicine for defeat or failure...
Despite the heavier fighting that has marked most regions of South Viet Nam in recent weeks, the Delta remained notably quiet. Then last week the country's richest and most populous area suddenly erupted in two major battles, including one that turned into the Communists' biggest defeat of the war in the Delta. The battles were remarkable for two reasons. One was that the Delta is still the sole domain of indigenous Viet Cong forces, some 80,000 strong, who seldom choose to do battle in the large numbers and on the scale of their North Vietnamese allies...
...many years, the best friend and trusted confidant of Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser was the chief of his armed forces, Field Marshal Abdel Hakim Amer. But the two had a serious falling out after Egypt's disastrous defeat by Israel in June, and in September, while under house arrest for allegedly plotting a military coup, Amer either committed suicide-the official version of his death -or was killed. After his death, intelligence agents of another Arab state obtained in Cairo a 14-page document said to be Amer's last testament. Though the Middle East makes...
...Patriots--unfortunately, but incidentally--lost to the Buffalo Bills, 44-16, but there was no defeat for Leo or his loyal fans, whose months of waiting were well rewarded...