Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...group tentatively plans to encourage voting by postering widely, distributing pamphlets stressing the effect of Prop 2 1/2 on Harvard, and possibly sponsoring a phone bank on the day before the referendum. The group used the phone bank strategy in its unsuccessful attempt to defeat the original Prop 2 1/2 resolution in November 1980, Kestnbaum added...
Whether the strategic stakes justified such a massive American involvement must be doubted in retrospect. But once American forces are committed, there is no valid goal except to prevail. The Kennedy and Johnson Administrations trapped themselves between their convictions and their inhibitions. They engaged us in Indochina to defeat a global conspiracy and then failed to press a military solution for fear of sparking a global conflict-a fear probably as exaggerated as the original assessment...
...point. For the first time in history, the average person could see the ugliness of war every evening on television. Americans from every walk of life were moved to protest. At the same time, poll after poll showed an overwhelming majority of Americans unprepared to accept an outright, humiliating defeat. The result was bitter domestic stalemate...
That mood passed too as Nixon's anguish engulfed us all. In defeat and disgrace he had at last prevailed; he had stripped us of our reserve; our hearts at last went out to this man who transcended his extremity by refusing to act as if he were defeated...
...adverse circumstances," Genes said, adding that "It has neither a mandate from the students to be reserving judgment about the Foundation. In particular, students who worked hard for a Third World Counter seem worried that the Foundation may provide little more than a crumb thrown to them after their defeat on the major issue. The administration's and Faculty's feelings may come out next week, when Counter will meet with University officials to negotiate the Foundation's budget for fiscal...