Word: defeats
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...President also managed to raise the political and diplomatic stakes surrounding any change in U.S. dispositions in Lebanon. The more that Reagan insisted on the importance of the Marine presence, the more he courted the risk that a tactical change in Lebanon would appear as a major U.S. defeat, even in response to circumstances that were not of U.S. making and beyond U.S. control...
Privately, British officials were blunt in observing that U.S. prestige suffered badly as a result of the collapse of Gemayel's government and the announcement of the Marine redeployment. Said a London diplomat: "Now Soviet propaganda can have a field day with what is truthfully a humiliating defeat for American foreign policy." The French were even more critical, although their 1,250-member MNF detachment will remain in Beirut while President Francois Mitterrand seeks a U.N. replacement. Said a senior French spokesman: "We will either revive the idea of a U.N. force [in Beirut], or we will conclude that...
...mood that swept the United States after World War 1. Both the American and European governments ignored the Spanish Republic's plea for aid even though the newly born democracy was being challenged by the fascist front. Francisco Franco, backed with military support from Hitler and Mussolini, struggled to defeat the Spanish peasants as they fought to save their democracy. During the Spanish Civil War Hitler had his chance to test his newly created weapons and for the first time in history, civilian dwellings were bombed. In his painting filled with twisted images, "Guernica," Pablo Picasso captures the anguish...
...Harvard men's basketball team bowed to Duke last night, 89-86, at Briggs Athletic Center in a contest that is best described as nothing less than a glorious defeat...
...almost sent Boston University down to defeat in one of the most maniacal finishes in 'Pot history...