Word: victor
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...than radicalism. "It is natural for a great nation to have great ambitions," he said. "In today's world, can there be a loftier duty for our country than to achieve a new alliance between socialism and liberty?" Speaking of his election, he said, "There was only one victor on May 10-hope. May it become the best shared asset in France." Promising that he would be President of all the French, regardless of their political views, Mitterrand concluded: "To all French men and women beyond this room and beyond this palace, I say: Let's have faith...
...Viet Nam masterpiece Dispatches, Indochina became the demented intersection of a bizarrely inventive killer technology (all of those "daisy cutters" and carpet-laying B-52s and mad swarms of choppers and infra-red nightscopes) with a tunnel-digging peasantry in rubber-tire sandals: the amazing, night-dwelling Victor Charlie...
...Berlin election did not produce a clear-cut victor. The Christian Democratic Union (C.D.U.) garnered 47.9% of the vote, its best showing ever, but the party still fell short of a majority. The biggest winner in this disillusioned city of 2 million, beset by youth protest and a wave of squatters taking over vacant buildings, was the Alternative List: a motley array of leftists, environmentalists, pacifists and others who reject all aspects of West German society. Using the symbol of a green hedgehog, this irreverent protest group polled 7.2%, and for the first time gained representation in the city parliament...
...crown. And the Irish have been fighting since. They've had their victories, of course. The biggest came in 1920 when they won the 26 counties of the south of Ireland. But the loyalist Protestant-dominated North (they still call themselves "Orangemen" in tribute to William of Orange, victor at the Battle of the Boyne) voted to ally with the U.K. It should be remembered that the white majority in the American South voted to have nothing to do with the rest of the country, in order that they might be allowed to continue with their various oppressions. The Irish...
...sight of Carole Landis and Victor Mature grunting lustfully through One Million B.C. was enough to satisfy 1940 preteens; the vision of Raquel Welch in One Million Years B.C. engorged many a Saturday-matinee libido 26 years later...