Word: defeating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gaulle took France's defeat at the hands of Communism in Southeast Asia as stoically as possible, even turning it to his diplomatic advantage in his current Russian tour. Last week he revealed that he would visit Cambodia in September, and had dispatched a "personal message" to North Viet Nam's Ho Chi Minh that might very well win him an invitation to Hanoi. Still, De Gaulle can do very little about Asia. He no longer has the power base or the authority. In Europe, he has both...
...aggressive, investigative reporting. The paper won a 1964 Pulitzer Prize for its scandal-packed report on a Florida turnpike boondoggle; most recently, it took out after Governor Haydon Burns with stories attacking him for nepotism and doing questionable favors for an insurance man. The Times's crusade helped defeat Burns's re-election bid in the May primary...
This withdrawal, he contended, has already resulted in the defeat of President Johnson's 1966 civil rights bill. "The most powerful Democratic liberal majority [of the century] did not do what it ought to have done," he declared...
...thought for his future would even want a place on the next G.O.P. national ticket. To be sure, Viet Nam and a skittish economy may considerably erode Lyndon Johnson's strength by 1968, and there are politicians who believe that the President's personal unpopularity could lead to his defeat. To Javits, whether Johnson is beatable or not is irrelevant. As he sees it, the G.O.P. is obliged to put up a strong fight if it is to lay a base for 1972 and, more important, if it is to retain its vigor as a major party...
...fall of Anthony Eden's government forced the Israeli withdrawal from Sinai. Nevertheless, Dayan and his fellow Israelis believe that the Sinai escapade convinced Nasser of the "readiness of Israel to take to the sword to secure her rights, and the capacity of her army to defeat" a numerically superior and better armed enemy...