Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Yalta conference in 1945, preparing for the final onslaught against Hitler's Germany, Roosevelt and Churchill gave tacit approval to the notion that Eastern Europe would be a Soviet "sphere of influence" after the defeat of their common enemy. It became more than that. By 1948 Bulgaria, Rumania, Poland, Albania, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary and Yugoslavia had acquired Communist governments, either by the force of Soviet arms or by political subversion...
...African policy had been violated. No French nationals were in jeopardy or in need of rescue, and no plea for French military help had come from a legitimate government. "We are just spectators," said a French spokesman. More pointedly, the Paris daily Le Monde called the invasion "a serious defeat for Paris," adding that "the French government was visibly caught on the wrong foot...
...little more than a month after Jimmy's defeat, do townspeople feel the pride of four years ago, the fervent expectancy encouraged in his always fragile Irish tenor at his swearing-in: "That when my time as your President has ended, people might say this about our nation-that we had remembered the words of [the prophet] Micah and renewed our search for humility, mercy and justice ... that we had enabled our people to be proud of their own government once again...
What makes Coluche's move into politics viable at all is that the comedian has focused on problems that do disturb ordinary French voters. Unemployment has reached a near record 6.3%; the inflation rate is 13.5%. President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing is expected to defeat his most serious opponent, only because his opposition on the left is so divided. Coluche is filling a void. More than 200 Coluche-for-President committees have sprung up across France, and he is confident that he will get the 500 signatures of elected local officials he needs to be placed...
...Providence got a break-away scoring opportunity, missed the lay-up and got five, six, even seven chances before the ball finally went in. An alarmed Kleinfelder switched back to her 1-3-1 defense, but it was too late. By now 25 points behind, Harvard all but conceded defeat, and sent out its bench to ride out the fiasco...