Word: defeatism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...People can buy apartments," says Pamela A. Bender of the Committee to Defeat Proposition 1-2-3. "They just can't buy rent-controlled apartments...
...before Tutu's election was announced, the Board approved most of the report's recommendations, even though HRAAA supporters said it was just a heavy-handed attempt to defeat their pro-divestment movement...
...third in the world. Her favorite victory came at age 15 over Margaret Smith Court, mere weeks after Court completed a sweep of the Grand Slams. But her finest moment was probably in the final of the 1986 French Open, when she fought back from a set down to defeat her most esteemed rival, Martina Navratilova, and win the title for a record seventh time. The competition with Navratilova spanned 16 years, 80 thrilling matches (Martina leads, 43-37) and countless tears and friendly embraces...
...years old and had held no Cabinet post in ten years. Yet in all the West, his was the voice that had most forcefully denounced Hitler, most prophetically warned that Britain must rearm to resist him. While Parliament approved the Munich agreement, Churchill called it "a total and unmitigated defeat." He said of Neville Chamberlain, "In the depths of that dusty soul, there is nothing but abject surrender...
...demands, control of Danzig and freedom of movement through the Polish Corridor. It is possible, of course, that the whole dynamic of Nazism required war, but if Hitler had been able to stop short of that, he would probably have been widely regarded as the man who undid the defeat of 1918, rebuilt and restored the nation...