Word: defeatism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...elder Palandjian, Laddin, and Dave Clark the defeat in New Jersey wrapped up their dual-match careers at Harvard...
...Harvard men's lacrosse team, led by a stingy defense, held off several late threats by New Hampshire to defeat the Wildcats, 6-5, before a crowd of 50 Monday at Ohiri Field...
...British arrived in 1795 and seized the Cape Town settlement with no real justification except that they wanted to deny the strategic site to France's India trade. But even after the defeat of Napoleon, the British stayed on. They subjected the pioneering Afrikaners to the discomforts of British law, including a ban on slavery...
Small wonder that Nixon, after a hairbreadth defeat to John F. Kennedy for the presidency in 1960, left Washington an unhappy man. A losing race in 1962 for a job he did not want, Governor of California, did nothing to improve his mood. Ambrose's first volume sets the stage for a comeback; the second should tell it as it happened, with a vengeance...
...daughters 18 and 16. They still live with Carlini's mother Edie, who has welcomed having three generations in the same house. Still, most psychologists feel lengthy homecomings are a mistake. Offspring, struggling to establish separate identities, can wind up with "a sense of inadequacy, defeat and failure," says Kristine Kratz, a counselor with the Personal Development Institute in Los Angeles. And aging parents, who should be enjoying some financial and personal freedom, find themselves bogged down with responsibilities. Says Debra Umberson, a researcher at the University of Michigan: "Living with children of any age involves compromise and obligation, factors...