Word: defeatism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cornell dominated Brown in nearly every statistical category Saturday, yet it was the Bruins who came through with the big plays on both sides of the ball in crucial situations to defeat the Big Red, 23-15, here at Brown Stadium...
...with you," his mother said. The dilemma was all the more acute, for Gore did not want to hurt his father's 1970 re-election fight against Republican Bill Brock, currently Secretary of Labor. In the end, he enlisted as an Army reporter, and his father went down in defeat. "The combination of Viet Nam and his dad's losing really turned Al off politics," says his mother. Returning home in 1971, he became a reporter and editorial writer for the Nashville Tennessean. While working as a journalist, he enrolled at Vanderbilt, first as a theology student and then...
Robert Bork was ready to give up. After a punishing confirmation ordeal, his appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court faced near certain defeat as a majority of Senators joined the tide against him. After wearily advising Ronald Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese that he had little fight left in him, the judge retreated last Thursday afternoon to his judicial chambers, where he began writing an angry statement withdrawing his nomination for the job he had wanted most of his career...
...Leonard Garment (who irritated Bork by presuming to act as his public spokesman) yelled at him, "If you pull out, you're a quitter!" But Irving Kristol, a conservative author, urged him to cut his losses and withdraw. Tired of the emotionally draining experience and bitter about his inevitable defeat, Bork slipped into the White House Wednesday afternoon and told the President he was inclined...
...meantime, were putting together a megacoalition of civil rights, women's and liberal groups for a vigorous public crusade against him. Some of the attacks involved distortions of his record and implications that he was personally biased against blacks and women. But the most significant factor in Bork's defeat was the unified and vigorous efforts of local black leaders in the South. In the 1986 campaign, Democrats regained control of the Senate mainly by winning five Southern seats. Reagan campaigned against all the Democratic candidates, four of whom won with overwhelming black support. Those Senators were reluctant to ignore...