Word: lost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...allegedly prevents it from renouncing this war and withdrawing from Viet Nam. But after several years of conducting this inhuman war, can your country say that its prestige has risen one inch? From this war you have gained absolutely nothing, and in the eyes of public opinion you have lost very much. Absolutely nobody can say a good-word about this dirty war-except a group of persons waxing rich on it. History will never forgive the U.S., and those responsible for the American policy should realize this full well...
...halted and reversed. This week the 720,000 people of Volgograd-as Stalingrad was renamed in 1961 during Khrushchev's destalinization campaign-mark the 25th anniversary of the end of the furious battle on the Volga's west bank, in which about 300,000 soldiers and civilians lost their lives. For its commemoration, the city has a statue of a bosomy Mother Russia waving a sword, which rises 170 feet above the Mamaev Hill, where some of the fiercest fighting raged. Farther down the hill, a wall bears the inscription: "Iron wind beat them in the face...
...Stalingrad, Germany not only lost men and morale but all its hopes of pushing the Soviet Union beyond the Urals and controlling Europe's bread basket and the Black Sea oil wells. After the battle, the Soviet armies paused only a few times before they had driven the Germans back to Germany. The victory also restored much respectability to a Communist movement tarnished in the 1930s by the Stalinist purges and the cynical Hitler-Stalin pact; the party signed up many new believers who mistakenly credited Communism-and not simply patriotism-for inspiring the Russian victory at Stalingrad...
...when we set the powder off, the gator lost his mind...
Last year, as a sophomore, Murphy won the Eastern Seaboard three-meter diving championship. During the regular season he lost only three of ten meets. So far this year he is undefeated...