Word: defeating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With a cease-fire currently under consideration in honor of the May 23 birthday of Buddha, Westmoreland confessed that he is averse to such pauses because Hanoi has consistently exploited them to accelerate its "resupply and infiltration activity." To defeat this enemy, said Westmoreland deliberately, "the only strategy is one of unrelenting -but discriminating-military, political and psychological pressure on his whole structure, and at all levels." Westmoreland has applied this strategy of unrelenting pressure to the allies' own performance as well, and the results have been dramatic...
...sure, but feel that he may be the prisoner of Communists who wish to use him as some sort of intermediary or in a propaganda ploy. They point out, for example, that Thompson knew many of Ho Chi Minh's agents at the time of the Japanese defeat in World...
...child comes to have significance beyond his own life. Prisoners submit to torture and death rather than reveal his constantly changing refuge. As Allied planes drone overhead, the great war outside Buchenwald is echoed by the small one inside. Men whose lusterless eyes have long since accepted defeat and early death begin again to act like people with a future. The precious burden of the boy becomes synonymous with the tomorrow none of them had ever hoped to see. Rumors run through the camp that the war is almost over. And when the Germans continue their pathological extermination of prisoners...
Colburn recovered from his defeat to demolish the freshman half-mile record in a sizzling...
...Crimson junior missed by inches on two match points and lost the set, 8-6. His confidence shaken, Gonzalez lost authority on critical services and volleys and lost the deciding set, 7-5. This defeat, which was Gonzalez's first ever in League competition, clinched the Tiger upset...