Word: defeating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...arguing that the U.S. has no business in Asia. If that feeling becomes general, the U.S. will be forced into the trap of seeking a negotiated settlement from a position of weakness-which at worst will give South Viet Nam to the Communists as effectively as any military defeat...
...pristine Cam Ranh Bay, where czarist Russia's fleet took shelter just before its crushing defeat by the Japanese navy in 1905, combat engineers turned the natural harbor into a major port. Twenty miles down the coast, the "Screaming Eagles" of the 101st Airborne Brigade began operating as a mobile strike force. In the guerrilla-infested jungles around Saigon prowled the 1st Infantry Division ("Big Red One"), the 173rd Airborne, a 1,200-man battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment, a 250-man New Zealand artillery unit...
...voters' love for Boykin ran out in the 1962 Democratic primary. Five months after his defeat, he was charged with accepting a bribe in an attempt, as a Congressman, to persuade the Justice Department to go easy on a convicted savings-and-loan swindler.*He was found guilty, given a $40,000 fine and a six-month jail sentence, which was suspended because...
Thus, gas propels Bulge toward the grandiose tank battle that eventually spells German defeat, but all the rest of the picture seems to run on sheer gall. On the questionable assumption that ferocious truth must be offset by comedy relief, there is a black-marketeering U.S. sergeant (Telly Savalas) who blunders into heroic deeds. Even the massacre of 125 G.I. prisoners at Malmédy has a silver lining, since it turns simpering Lieut. James MacArthur into a fit soldier...
...wise and knowledgeable enough to have been consulted on many weighty affairs, including the writing of West Germany's constitution. He urged Navy Secretary Forrestal to make a show of American power in China in 1946, and argues that such a move might have averted the staggering U.S. defeat that the emergence of Red China represented. More recently, he gave advice to Barry Goldwater...