Word: prevailingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Heavy-handed amateur ironies prevail. A Polaroid commercial is doctored to show a still of a dead soldier; a Band-Aid commercial is spliced into combat scenes. Only bits and pieces of conversation with Ho Chi Minh and Fidel Castro give anything like a sense of ideological actuality. The rest has the secondhand look of a film that has been petulantly edited, as the title implies, far from Viet...
...from pipelines and oil and gas wells set ablaze by the retreating Ibos. At week's end, Biafran soldiers were still holding out in some sections of Port Harcourt, and the prospect was for long-drawn-out fighting. But the superior federal firepower seemed certain to prevail eventually, and then Port Harcourt would join the long string of Ibo ghost towns now occupied by the Lagos government...
...assault to crack America's will. It is designed to trouble and worry and confuse others." But, he said, his jaw set, "We have set our course. We will pursue it just as long as aggression threatens it. And make no mistake about it -America will prevail...
...would not dare ask his wife about her dabblings in the stock market. "She would say to me, 'It is not the Senate's business,' " he declared. "We have lived 40 happy years together. It just proves that love and harmony and sweetness of life still prevail in the Dirksen family. But she is her own boss." The public-disclosure amendment did have sizable support - notably from Connecticut's Tom Dodd, whose transgressions in part prompted demand for the code. Yet the amendment failed...
What really happened is that the Chinese Communist leaders, believing as they do that the human will can always prevail over material difficulties, put heavy pressure on the Indonesian Communists to make a move while the U.S. was tied up in Vietnam...