Word: prevail
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson goes into today's match with only a single loss to Navy marring an otherwise perfect season, and the same holds true for Yale. Both teams fell easy prey to the unorthodox playing conditions which prevail on the Navy courts, and actually the winner of today's match will be regarded unofficially as the best team in the country by most squash observers...
...commanding influence because he wrapped up the political, military, economic and moral complexities of cold war into his own fighting faith. "Freedom must be a positive force that will penetrate," said John Foster Dulles. "If we demonstrate the good fruits of freedom, then we can know that freedom will prevail...
...Timetable. The chief challenger to Khrushchev's theorizing was not present, for reasons unexplained, but the stocky shadow of Mao Tse-tung nevertheless leaned over the proceedings. Perhaps Red China's Mao knew that his ideas would not prevail. Breaking the long official Soviet silence on Red China's "big leap" to create communes throughout the countryside in 1958, Khrushchev declared that Communism-the ultimate, classless form of human society described by Marx, Engels and Lenin ("To each according to his need")-cannot be achieved without first building socialism ("To each according to his work...
...unsuccessful with the rebels, De Gaulle at least was able to prevail over his own troublesome generals last week. Sad-eyed General Raoul Salan, No. 1 soldier in Algeria during last summer's settlers' revolt, was made military governor of Paris. Impetuous paratroop Major General Jacques Massu was assigned to a field command entirely divorced from politics...
Another reason: the U.S. found in Deputy Under Secretary of State C. Douglas Dillon, onetime Wall Street investment banker, a foreign aid field commander with the tactical skill needed-and deployed-to prevail upon Congress to pass 1958's $3.3 billion foreign aid appropriation. As much as it dramatized Communism's infiltration of strategic, oil-rich Venezuela, the mobbing of Vice President Nixon in Caracas (TIME, May 26) underlined the urgent need for U.S. help for orderly economic growth in the hemisphere. Needed in Latin America, Asia and Africa alike was a new climate of incentive plans...