Word: defeating
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Avatar, the beleaguered underground newspaper, suffered another legal defeat yesterday in Boston Municipal Court...
...wins of John Whitbeck, playing in the fifth position, and Bruce Weigand in the seventh gave Barnaby particular pleasure. Whitbeck, who suffered the only loss in last week's 8-1 triumph over Cornell, played a strong, steady game to defeat Toronto's Frank Swinton, 15-12, 15-12, 15-10. His hard backcourt drives were too much for Swinton to handle...
...statement was that his brother had had no use for either the "domino theory" or the argument that China might threaten U.S. security. Bobby was wrong on both counts. Two months before his death, John F. Kennedy was asked if he doubted the validity of the theory that a defeat in Viet Nam would imperil the rest of Southeast Asia. "No," he replied. "I believe it. I think that the struggle is close enough. China is so large, looms so high just beyond the frontiers, that if South Viet Nam went, it would not only give them an improved geographic...
...Viet Nam in 1951 (then Indo-China):We must learn how to suffer and not let go of Asia. We must stay in Korea and stay in Indo-China. It is possible to leave but these are solutions of defeat. For my part, I do not accept them...
India is undergoing another plague of political unrest. It grows out of last February's elections, in which Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's Congress Party, in an unprecedented defeat, lost control of nine of India's 17 states. In only one of those states did a non-Congress party emerge with a large enough majority to rule alone. In all of the others, the vote was so splintered that the parties were forced to form coalitions that sometimes included as many as 14 parties of wildly incompatible political persuasions. The result in some states was chaos...