Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...defeat, however, is not the end of the road, but a bridge to a European integration. His departure will no doubt make progress in revitalizing the American-European Community. As such, all Western nations should support France to help replace despair with opportunity until good becomes better, and better becomes best. This is the only guarantee toward a monetary, economic and political stability in the Western world...
Cairo and the rest of the Arab world are only three weeks away from a day that they would prefer to forget, June 5, the second anniversary of their crushing defeat by the Israelis in the Six-Day War. The war left Cairo shorn of part of its realm, ruling over a defeated people and a divided land. Lost in the war, the Sinai desert and Gaza remain in the hands of the conquering Israelis, who are solidly entrenched on the east bank of the Suez Canal...
...guns and resources. All of this has fed a growing, fatalistic conviction within Egypt that the rapidly hardening status quo in the Middle East can be broken only by another war ? even though most Egyptians do not want one, even though another war would almost certainly mean another defeat...
...President ruled out unilateral withdrawal and said that such a move would be betraying his office, since it would not guarantee a permanent peace. He also excluded the possibility of a "disguised defeat" at the negotiating table, and said "prestige is not an empty word...
...open the season in style. Harvard's lacrosse team was equally successful. Penn trailed until the very end of the game, but then tied the score with a rally. The Quakers scored four goals in five minutes of overtime to win, 14-10. The Crimson had snatched defeat out of the jaws of victory...