Word: pyrrhic
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Dates: during 1951-1951
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Last week, fed up with the turmoil he created, Restrepo resigned. But it was a kind of Pyrrhic victory for Barrio Antioquia's defenders. Said the suburb's Padre Abel Diez, who had fought the red-light invasion: "There were insults; they threw rocks at my house and I could never sleep. We closed the church today. The decent people will have to leave...