Word: revanchist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...another one of our operatives, an alert alumnus of that famous school, whose name I cannot divulge, tried to whip up a little more anti-Communist feeling. He wrote a letter to Bok, very cleverly, criticizing the fact that Harvard had on its Faculty an avowed communist that despicable revanchist, Kautskian John Womack, who has brown-nosed his way to the head of the History Department there...
...attenuate. But the internal difficulties of these Arab regimes and the growing pan-Islamic tide led by Iran will not simply disappear. Neither, will Israel, nor presumably, will the common hatred of Israel. Whether out of the need for an external enemy for internal unity, or out of revanchist motivations, it is safe to assume that Israel will remain an object of enmity. Israel's security needs logically become paramount...