Word: defeatism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...League Championship would not guarantee the Crimson a bid in the ECAC playoffs, a year-long goal of the team. Harvard fell to UMass, 10-8, in early April and this defeat--combined with a 12-9 loss to Maryland at the beginning of the season--may keep the Crimson out of post-season action...
...With the defeat, Harvard (now 6-2 overall, 2-2 Ivy League) dropped from contention in the battle for the league title, as both Brown and Cornell now boast perfect 3-0 records in the Ivies...
...dream was reborn in defeat...
...morning of the final vote, Reagan knew the odds were against him: all 54 Senate Democrats opposed him, as did 13 Republican defectors. Even so, he rejected the option posed by Chief of Staff Howard Baker that he quietly accept defeat rather than risk losing more political capital on a hopeless cause. The President also dismissed Senate Minority Leader Robert Dole's warning that his chances of success could be as low as 1 in 100. Instead, with the firm declaration "I want to do it," Reagan traveled the extra mile down Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House...
Meeting with all 46 members of the Republican minority in the ornate Old Senate Chamber, the President began by quoting from the same folk ballad that he used in acknowledging defeat at the 1976 Republican Convention: "I am wounded but not slain. I will rest awhile. But I will rise and fight again." Then Reagan uttered six words that Presidents use sparingly at best: "I beg you for your vote." The G.O.P. Senators, awkwardly divided between loyalists and mavericks, at first responded to the President's plaintive appeal with stiff formality. Then one of the rebels, Senator Steven Symms...