Word: defeatism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Three straight Ivy wins--over Cornell, Columbia and Brown--resuscitated the ailing Crimson, but a close defeat by Yale last Saturday leaves the team with a very slim chance of returning to the top of the league...
...provide further evidence of President Corazon Aquino's enormous personal popularity. The margin of victory--a three-to-one vote in favor of the new constitution proposed by Aquino--surprised many foreign observers and restored international confidence in the staying power of her government. Indeed, placed alongside the quick defeat of yet another coup attempt, the February 2nd vote seems to confirm the unassailable nature of the current regime...
...been turning in solid performances throughout the first half of the season, fell to a tough opponent, dropping the score to 18-6. Junior Pate Homes took a close match and three point decisions, while senior Tri-Captain Jerry Greenberg (167 lbs.) not only suffered a pin--his first defeat of the season--but injured himself in the process...
...decline a $66,000 check handed over last week by 1983 Winner Alan Bond, his rival Perth wheeler-dealer whose Australia IV was beaten in the defender trials. Before that peace offering, though, the two had exchanged a squall of nasty words following Australia's defeat...
...thousands, maybe tens of thousands. If you look at the films after that seventh race, you'll see Dennis standing absolutely alone ((abandoned by the N.Y.Y.C.)), a small businessman from San Diego facing the music by himself, with tears running down my cheeks. People said they were touched. In defeat I found something I never knew in victory. They were proud of me. In essence, the Cup was freed...