Word: defeatism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bork might have left the bench earlier. He had not hired law clerks for the coming term, and he was obviously restless. "I don't think he finds judging all that interesting," says his D.C. circuit colleague Abner Mikva. Why, then, did Bork hang on so long after his defeat? Says Heritage Foundation Legal Expert Bruce Fein: "He didn't want this to look like the peevish decision of an upset...
...jovial and pragmatic. The elder Chiang fielded armies against both the Japanese and Mao Zedong's Communists. The younger, though bearing the nominal rank of general, never saw action on the battlefield. Yet after the Nationalists fled the mainland, it was the son who helped transform the father's defeat into victory. Chiang Ching-kuo's inheritance was the loss of China; when he died last week of heart failure at 77, he left the miracle of Taiwan as his own legacy...
...gave McGovern a publicity boost when he finished third in Iowa (behind Edmund Muskie and "uncommitted"). Muskie won in New Hampshire as well, but McGovern, trailing by only 9 percentage points, again triumphed in the expectations game. He rode that wave to the nomination -- and then to a resounding defeat as traditional Democratic voters, appalled that ultra-liberals had taken over the party, defected to Richard Nixon...
...next night, the Crimson's confidence was shattered by a strong Big Red team, which gave Harvard as crushing a defeat as it has had all year...
...next night, Dartmouth sent a listless Columbia squad (3-9, 0-2 Ivies) down to a 85-73 defeat in Levien Gym in New York...