Word: defeating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Other specialists point out that if the Chinese really wanted to risk obliteration, ABM would not be an insuperable barrier. They could smuggle in the parts of nuclear bombs and use saboteurs rather than missiles. Either the Chinese or the Russians could attempt germ warfare if they feared nuclear defeat. Short-range attacks from submarines sneaking close to the coasts is also a possibility?and one that ABM might not be able to cope with...
Nixon has an acute political consciousness. He may seek a way out of the controversy rather than face possible defeat in the Senate at the hands of an anti-Sentinel force led by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass...
...growing liability in a nation that values youth for its own sake. During Gruening's losing campaigns of 1968, he went to the extreme of taking a swim in the freezing Arctic waters to demonstrate his physical vigor. His age nevertheless appears to have brought on his narrow defeat in the Democratic primary last year...
Harvard's defeat lowered its season record to 18-7-1, still its best mark since 1963. The Crimson's strong challenge to Cornell's supremacy won the other slot as the East's representative against the West...
...first the Crimson must defeat Clarkson. In their two previous meetings this year, the teams have each won a game. Harvard won an easy 7-2 victory in the first game, but the Golden Knights evened the score four days later with a 4-2 win at their rink--whose peculiar dimensions always baffle visiting teams...