Word: defeatism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eager for another defeat, Coach Cleary insisted on his mom's presence at the NCAAs. But Mother Cleary tripped outside the Civic Center prior to Friday night's semifinal against Denver and had to be stitched up before the opening face...
...what the contras could accomplish. The Sandinistas have to look at one of two choices: the possibility of a military defeat and being totally overthrown, or a choice of having a political settlement in which, while they would have to give up this monopoly on power they have, at least they could be in a position to run for office if they could get the people's approval...
...asserted in an interview with TIME last week. "When the President goes to the wall and gives everything to win, he's strengthened for the next battle, not weakened." But what of the risk that a strategy of confrontation on aid to the contras will cost Reagan a resounding defeat? Buchanan is unconcerned. "You're strengthened by your defeats," he says. Such doomed conservative crusades as Barry Goldwater's 1964 presidential campaign "got us here," asserts Buchanan. "We lost the battle...
...back NATO has been a difficult task. When the informal referendum campaign began 2 1/2 years ago, only 17% favored continued membership in the alliance. By last week the gap had narrowed, yet all but one of the last polls before the vote showed Gonzalez going down to defeat...
...European and U.S. diplomats waited with apprehension, hoping Gonzalez could pull off a miracle. From a military standpoint, Spain's withdrawal would matter little, since even now the country is not part of NATO's unified military command structure. But NATO Secretary- General Lord Carrington warned that a referendum defeat would result in a "very grave weakening of the alliance...