Word: defeatingly
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...gave me a sense of security. We were all at a church in Maine recently and the preacher asked whether anyone in the congregation had a perfect family, and the only hand that went up without hesitation was Dad's. It helped Jeb and me not be afraid of defeat...
...thing happened to me in my first race, and to my dad, and to my grandfather. I know Jeb well. He's a loving soul. It made him better, more determined to win next time. He converted to Catholicism, started an inner-city school in Miami, didn't let defeat keep him down...
BUSH: It was a death of a thousand cuts, and it took a thousand to defeat him. He couldn't get his base intact. And the cause of that was breaking the "read my lips" tax pledge...
Bush is so proud of his can't-we-all-get-along politics that when ABC's George Stephanopoulos gets on the plane in New York City, he needles him for helping defeat his father but thanks him for driving him to jogging in order to wash the bitterness over the loss out of his system. "Getting over any grudge," he says, "was important because voters can tell if you want the job for the wrong reason. They can tell if you're dark and brooding, or if you're optimistic and happy...
...while he slept: "I didn't want to gain a single mile unless my wrists and arms felt it," he later told a magazine interviewer. "For me, freedom is being able to choose my own challenges. I am not afraid of losing, because there are honorable defeats." Among them, surely, his defeat last week...