Word: defeatism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis was a long-distance runner before it was cool, finishing the Boston Marathon as a high school senior in 1951. His political career had its own Heartbreak Hill, a devastating primary defeat when he first sought re-election as Governor in 1978. But Dukakis hit his stride with a comeback victory in 1982, and since then has compiled a record of achievement from welfare reform to tax reduction that has earned him a laurel wreath as one of the best Governors in the country. Last week Dukakis embarked on the most grueling endurance race of them...
...Crimson has gone 28-4 over the past five months. But there are times when I've had to venture into the dark place of defeat...
...golf squad of that touchstone year which had bested four other colleges to gain its fifth title in six years. The 82-year drought received some notice during Harvard's championship drive which ended with a 6-5 loss to Michigan State in the NCAA finals. The one-goal defeat seemed a cruel but inevitable part of that sorry history...
Trailing 8-6, O'Neill tallied four of the bout's final five touches to defeat his Quaker counterpart...
...both parties, like the sagacious Georgia Senator Sam Nunn, have been invited into the White House for their counsel. Their inputis now being felt on issues like the ABM treaty, SDI, trade, welfare. Changes in Reagan's approach to policy are almost inevitable, unless he wants to court more defeat, which could darken his exit a couple of years hence...