Word: defeatism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ciaccio ran for two touchdowns and Joe Segreti ran for two more as the Crusaders, ranked fourth in I-AA, improved to 4-0 with their 12th straight win. Princeton, 1-1-1, suffered its most lopsided loss in eight years and its most one-sided shutout defeat ever...
...loss marked the second straight defeat for the Crimson (2-3 overall, 0-1 Ivy League), which fell to nationally ranked Indiana, 7-2, in Bloomington last Sunday. But with both losses coming to teams outside the region--Indiana and Stanford were new additions to Harvard's schedule this fall--neither result should affect the Crimson's standing in the Northeast...
Williams (7-0) carried its new-found momentum into the fourth and fifth sets. The Crimson (1-3) squandered an 11-8 lead in the fourth and an 8-1 lead in the fifth en route to a disappointing defeat...
During that struggle, Harvard played an active role in supporting the effort to defeat the Axis Powers, according Ford Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus David Riesman '31. Classes were accelerated to allow students to graduate early and join the armed forces. Harvard's president during the war, James Bryant Conant '14, played a large role in developing the atomic bomb. And the University had a special school to train administrators who helped run the American district in Germany after that country's surrender...
Massachusetts Republicans have jumped on the Frank affair, and the latest poll shows that only 45% of the Congressman's constituents still look on him favorably -- a blow but not necessarily a defeat, since 61% want him to run for office again next year. Alexander Tennant, Massachusetts G.O.P. state committee director, says the political issue is "not Barney Frank's sex life but whether the Congressman broke the law." Gobie says he did, by abusing congressional immunity to avoid paying Gobie's parking tickets, a charge Frank denies...