Word: defeats
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...other day I was glancing through the pages of a popular tennis magazine when an article about women being unable to defeat men at tennis caught my attention...
Jayewardene refused, but in recent months he became convinced that India was determined to stop Colombo's efforts to defeat the Tamil rebels. In June secret talks began through diplomatic intermediaries. Colombo agreed to Tamil self-rule, while India acceded to Jayewardene's request that it impose the settlement on the rebels -- by force if need be. Asked at a news conference last week why he had not made those concessions before, Jayewardene drew gasps when he replied, "Lack of courage on my part, lack of intelligence on my part, lack of foresight on my part...
DIED. James Burnham, 81, pungent conservative columnist, author (The Managerial Revolution) and apostate Trotskyist who in 1955 became a founding editorial-board member of William F. Buckley's National Review; in Kent, Conn. The Chicago-born Burnham won renown for books (The Struggle for the World, The Coming Defeat of Communism) that warned of an inevitable U.S.-Soviet confrontation. In 1983 he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom...
Traffic is thick enough to defeat just about anything except perhaps the mating instinct. In fact, some have found that choked freeways can enhance the possibilities of finding a mate. Ruth Guillou, an enterprising Huntington Beach, Calif., widow, was idling along when she saw a "charming-looking man in a yellow Cadillac. I couldn't get him out of my mind. There should have been a way for me to make contact with him." Thus was born the Freeway Singles Club, a mail-forwarding service whose participants pay $35 for a numbered decal that identifies them as members. The group...
Viet Nam shaped North in lasting ways, and the account of his nighttime assault on North Viet Nam reveals some of the same traits and patterns that have put this much decorated war hero at the heart of the Iran-contra affair. For North, the U.S. defeat abroad and the revulsion with the war at home were searing, bitter experiences. Never again would something like that happen -- if he could help it. He was a man of action, frustrated by red tape, timid bureaucrats and waffling politicians. If you needed to get something done, do it yourself...