Word: defeatism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Seeding shockers: Some hockey observers were surprised that Michigan State (34-9-2) was awarded the West's second seed while CCHA regular-season champion Bowling Green (36-10-2) was forced to travel to Cambridge. But the Spartans are the defending national champions, and they did defeat BG in the conference finals...
Saturday, the Crimson came in with slight hopes of a shocker over UNH, but knew that in all probability its first-ever defeat of the heavily-favored Wildcats would have to wait for another year...
...last time Assad sent in his army was in 1976. At that time the Syrians were trying to save the Maronite Christian forces from total defeat at the hands of an alliance of leftist Lebanese Muslims and the Palestine Liberation Organization, thereby disrupting the country's delicate balance of power. The Syrians ended up fighting the Christians they had come to save, suffered heavy casualties, and had to pull out of the Beirut area in a hurry after the Israelis invaded Lebanon...
...country. But during the past three years, Arafat has been quietly rebuilding his strength in West Beirut. Since last fall, Assad's closest Lebanese ally, the Shi'ite Amal militia, headed by Nabih Berri, has waged a merciless battle against the P.L.O. in the refugee camps but failed to defeat...
...moral issues are, and he places his stories in palpably realistic contexts. Not only do his kids speak up-to-the-minute adolescent idiom and illustrate the latest dress code perfectly, they attend clangorously class-conscious public high schools, whose unexamined values the protagonists must always challenge -- and defeat...