Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Western observers, however, were careful to qualify judgment of the incredible Hungarians with such statements as "morally and psychologically, the revolution is as strong as ever." Something like that was acknowledged by Premier Kadar in an interview with Communist East German correspondents. Said Kadar: "The military defeat has been completed. It will be the ideological struggle that will be the most important...
...denied. In parliamentary debate, he was always a standout performer, respected by the Liberals and admired by the galleries for the deftness of his attacks on government policies. He was also a strong political campaigner-and a winning one. While the rest of the Tory Party suffered defeat upon defeat. Diefenbaker steadily increased his majorities in his own district...
...LONELY PASSION OF JUDITH HEARNE, by Brian Moore. The painfully etched life of an old maid as she moves from helplessness to hopelessness in Belfast, Ireland. Dreary and appalling, but so bitterly true that Novelist Moore achieves a small mas terpiece of human defeat...
GALLIPOLI, by Alan Moorehead. A monument to the British defeat by the Turks at Gallipoli in 1915-which, like many another military disaster, is better remembered for valor than for folly. Combat writing that can stand with the classics in a much overwrit ten field...
...Yardlings posted a 71-67 triumph in the opener, rallying to defeat the Bruin cubs after trailing 32 to 28 at the half. The Crimson used only six men throughout, and had to overcome a 9-0 Brown lead at the start...