Word: victor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Army has already weighed Westmoreland's responsibility for My Lai and found him guiltless. That is hardly surprising, since it is one thing for the victor to judge the vanquished and quite another, realistically, for an army and a nation still locked in combat to judge its own too harshly...
...VICTOR BORODIN São Paulo, Brazil...
...words reached the West, one prevalent speculation is that they were brought to Denmark by Victor Louis, a Russian-born journalist (real name: Vitaly Lui) with close ties to the KGB, the Soviet secret police. It was Victor Louis who tried to beat Western publishers into print by offering European firms a version of Svetlana's Twenty Letters to a Friend. Either Louis or other KGB men are known to have placed authentic manuscripts in the West, often to try to convict the authors of anti-Soviet propaganda. British Journalist Louis Herren speculated that any KGB involvement might reflect...
...team winner yesterday was the University of Oregon, led by individual victor Steve Prefontaine. He and 79 others broke the course record of 29:40, Prefontaine by over a minute-and-a-half. The course is six miles long...
Remember The Great Victor Herbert? Or Hi Diddle Diddle! Or how about Never Put It in Writing? Well, Andrew Stone has done it again with Song of Norway. Adapted by Stone from the highly successful 1944 Broadway operetta and filmed in Scandinavia and England at a cost of about $4,000,000, Song is a wildly romanticized biography of Edvard Grieg, once hailed as the "Chopin of the North." By comparison, The Sound of Music is not only trenchant social documentary but a symphonic tour de force...