Word: vanquished
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past eight years, the Salvadoran government is not even close to winning the civil war. Troops killed most of the guerrilla leaders in the west eight years ago, forcing the F.M.L.N. out of the area. The rebels' return underscores their new strength and the army's inability to vanquish them permanently...
...today" people (the younger, TV-fluent crowd); who pushed for hiring Phyllis George as co-anchor of the CBS Morning News. "Sauter was in charge," writes Boyer, "and it was clear that he wasn't there to validate the glories of CBS News past. He was there to vanquish the past, to repudiate an approach to television that was seen as hidebound and irrelevant and the philosophies of broadcast journalism that fostered that approach. That was his mission, and that is what...
...Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis another Jimmy Carter? Dukakis doesn't want voters to think so--but by running in the Carter mold, he may actually vanquish an opponent who can't separate himself from President Reagan...
...Crimson managed to vanquish both foes en route to a four-and-a-half second victory over the Bruins in Providence...
...been practicing for this all semester," said Frilot before the match. Two spectators rushed to the aid of Frilot in his quest to vanquish the champion as two other members of the audience jumped in to reinforce Shlipak's side...