Word: defeating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nature of the struggle isn't simply freedom versus antifreedom. It is partly a civil war, partly a case of "internal aggression." The "credibility of our military power" is what is at stake. It is not the presence of a Communist government in Saigon but an American military defeat that would shake the non-Communist governments of Asia. The U.S. cannot surrender, he writes, and should not withdraw...
Academic. He does not question President Johnson's "painful, consistent" desire to avoid military defeat while "resisting proposals to enlarge the conflict." And though he wrote his book before the U.S. struck the petroleum targets at Haiphong and Hanoi, he foresaw that the President would find it necessary to move "imperceptibly" in the direction of more blows against North Viet...
...ease. First, several Republicans and moderate Northern Democrats sought to strike out the housing clause altogether, figuring that it was doomed anyway by warnings from Senate G.O.P. Leader Everett Dirksen and House Minority Leader Jerry Ford that they consider it "absolutely unconstitutional" and will fight to the end to defeat it. Title IV was barely rescued (17 to 15) by a curious coalition of Northern liberals who were committed to the housing provision and Southerners who reckoned that its inclusion would spell certain death for the whole civil rights bill...
...cities it fell as fiat as the African beer doled out by the gourdful at the polling places. Victory was just what Jomo had predicted. When the results were in, his triumphant KANU candidates feasted on roast oxen-a symbolic meal commemorating the KPU's decisive defeat...
Aside from Romney, few governors have higher political ambitions, which may explain their silence on Vietnam. Their greatest importance, as far as affecting policy is concerned, will be the effect of their showing on their states' congressional delegations. If Romney, for example, runs strongly, he may defeat all four of Michigan's marginal Congressional seats and sweep newly-appointed Senator Robert Griffin into a full term. The expected weak showing of Governor Rockefeller of New York, on the other hand, may help produce surprise victories for three or four marginal Democrats--a result which would tend to overstate the President...