Word: defeatism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their computerized war games, along with plenty of worst-case assumptions about the readiness of NATO. As a result, the bottom line of many such calculations has changed: the most often cited "sneak- attack scenario," which might before have yielded a Soviet victory, now leads to stalemate or even defeat...
...aspects of life converge on baseball. Triumph, defeat, heroicism receive their greatest play on the baseball diamond...
...Crimson will be trying to avenge its only defeat last season when it rows against Navy and Penn on the Charles River for the elusive Adams Cup title, which Harvard hasn't won in the last four years...
...lights won the Eastern Sprints championshiplast year by two-and-one-half seconds overPrinceton, avenging the squad's onlyregular-season defeat...
...stunning upset ended decades of Labor Party dominance in numerous key regions. With more Labor strongholds expected to fall in runoff elections scheduled for next week, Labor leader Shimon Peres grudgingly agreed to an investigation into the humiliating defeat...