Word: lost
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...invading Viet Nam, Peking clearly intended to regain some lost prestige and prove it is no paper tiger. The invasion also presumably had a tactical goal: drawing Vietnamese troops away from Cambodia in order to ease the pressure on Pol Pot's surviving forces. But the risks involved in the Viet Nam invasion were far greater than those involved in the border war with India. Besides a possible Soviet retaliation that could come at any time, China already has suffered a political setback in world eyes. The Japanese, who joined them in decrying "hegemony" when they signed a treaty with...
Both the Egyptians and the Israelis recognize that without a peace agreement the area from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean could be plunged into prolonged turmoil and stress. Having lost access to Iran's oil, which once provided almost 50% of their needs, the Israelis are eager for a settlement with Egypt that would allow them buyer's rights to crude pumping from the wells in Sinai and the Gulf of Suez. The Ayatullah's zealous denunciations of Israel raised fears that some of the sophisticated U.S. weaponry purchased by the Shah might eventually be lent...
...howling arenas of the A.C.C., where the fans are rabid and the play is hard, the word upset has lost its meaning. Probably no other conference has so many good teams, year in and year out, and about the only sure things are games between the A.C.C. and outside teams. This year, the A.C.C. is 75-15 against nonconference foes, a .833 winning percentage, which is better than that of any other major conference. Just ask Notre Dame how tough the A.C.C. is. First the No. 1 Irish lost to Maryland, then they beat North Carolina State by only...
...scene at St. Mary's Cathedral in San Francisco was vaguely surreal. In the pews was an audience of 1,500, sedate as any churchgoers. Ranged about them in a huge semicircle was a gleaming array of 80 trombonists, as if a parade had lost its way and sought sanctuary...
...beginning to show signs of the breakdown that marked the end of the medieval world-the same point made by Barbara Tuchman in her bestseller A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century. As Lasch tells it, disastermania and the selfishness of the "Me" decade indicate that humanity has lost faith in the future and awaits some kind of ending...