Word: defeating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Defeat for the Spirit
...found your story on "The Julio Incident" [March 8] particularly disheartening. An armed American ship stood by, while three helpless men who sought only freedom were repeatedly overrun by a Cuban vessel in international waters. The result was a defeat, not so much for this nation as for the spirit of common humanity, to which those unfortunate men in the lifeboat were appealing...
...Defeat...
...honorable disengagement of U.S. troops as quickly as feasible." This suggestion is one of the most sophisticated positions any politician has taken openly, since it amounts to American withdrawal masked by a face-saving political agreement. Gore admits that his proposal would involve humiliation and even a sense of defeat for "our leaders and our people," but he points out that the only alternative is a "historic catastrophe...
...moved in as a result of our shock at the Communist victory in China and the French defeat in Vietnam--a defeat, as I have noted, by a Communist Party that had achieved leadership of a nationalist movement. And at each juncture that we felt ourselves losing our grip, we increased our investment. Opportunities to exit with a modicum of grace were regularly by-passed in the expectation of eventual success. And now that that success seems further off than ever, our stakes have been transformed, and exit is infinitely harder...