Word: defeatism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Under Cambridge's system of proportional representation, it is important to vote for several candidates. In the late stages of the vote count, third, fourth and lower-choice votes can mean the difference between victory and defeat for a candidate. We strongly urge you to vote for all of these candidates...
...vindication by landslide in the presidential election of 1972. As in his first installment, Ambrose sets out the chronicle in meticulous detail, relying more heavily on facts than dicta to lead the reader's judgment. Fact: Nixon was so habitual a deceiver that in 1962, 48 hours after saying defeat would at least restore his family life, he left for the Bahamas without his wife and daughters. Fact: during 1968 he artfully cultivated Lyndon Johnson's goodwill for his own benefit and later repaid his predecessor with small kindnesses. Fact: Viet Nam and other realities he inherited on Inauguration...
...weapons of modern warfare, none is more venerable than radar. The seemingly magical technology that enables planes, ships and artillery units to spot the enemy from afar has made the difference between defeat and victory in many a battle. In a Nova TV episode called Echoes of War, which was shown on the Public Broadcasting System last week, radar was hailed as the military's unsung hero of World War II. As physicist I.I. Rabi once recalled, "Maybe we could have won it without the atomic bomb . . . but without radar we could have lost...
Part Two continued with the painful defeat at Brown, followed by losses to B.C., Vermont and UConn...
Since Dukakis returned to Massachusetts after his defeat in the November presidential elections, he has been considering spending cuts, which many legislative leaders have called for, and the political risk of requesting a tax increase...