Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Throwing and winning is nothing new to Kim Johnson, who has rarely tasted defeat in the eight years she has been throwing the discuss and putting the shot. In fact, even her entry into the decidedly unglamorous world of field events was a success of sorts...
...brothers learned anything in their first two years of power, it was, to use John Kennedy's borrowed phrase, that "victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan." Often he had pondered his humiliation at the Bay of Pigs in April 1961. Some day, he used to muse, he would write the story of the last White House meeting before that debacle, when Kennedy had gone around the table and extracted an opinion from each of his advisers. None foresaw disaster, he said...
...house-to-house battle for the town late last month lasted three days. Only with the support of OV-10C aircraft, which strafed the dense surrounding jungle, were the government forces able to defeat the opium mercenaries, who fled across the border into Burma. At least 51 mercenaries and 16 Thais were killed in the fighting. When the Thai soldiers picked their way through the rubble afterward, they were amazed to find that Ban Hin Taek in no way resembled a jungle village. It was a modern town with tennis courts, a soccer field and shops stocked with electric guitars...
...convinced that we were in a good position to dominate events. Our de facto ally Israel stood to win. Our moderate Arab friends, such as Jordan and Saudi Arabia, though they could not admit it, were nearly as afraid of a victory achieved by Soviet arms as of a defeat of their Arab brethren. From the outset, I was determined to use the war to start a peace process...
...military aid from us before victory. Schlesinger's concern was that meeting Israel's requests and turning around a battle that the Arabs were winning might blight our relations with the Arabs. Other participants concurred. My view was that matters had progressed too far. "Israel has suffered a strategic defeat no matter what happens," I argued...