Word: defeatism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Springfield College men's volleyball team avenged a thrashing Harvard handed them February at the Malkin Athletic Center by handing the Crimson a stinging straight-set defeat in Springfield Wednesday night...
Through determination and hard work--practice and more practice--the team was able to reach great heights. The Crimson (8-1 this year) lost only 11 of its 81 individual matches. The only team which wasn't defeated by the racquets of wrath was Princeton. The Tigers, who handed Harvard its only defeat of the season, knocked off the defending champions to become number one in the squash world. Harvard tripped to number...
...winning or I was losing. I didn't know I was making a comeback either. All I could think about was 'Oh My God, my thesis is due in 11 days."--Harvard women's fencing Captain Penelope Papailias about her rally from a 4-0 deficit to defeat Yale's top-ranked fencer at the Northeast Regionals last weekend in New Haven...
Republicans refused to concede defeat and Dole said President Bush would "buy lunch" for any Democrat willing to listen...
WASHINGTON--The Senate confirmation battle over Defense Secretary-designate John Tower neared a climax yesterday as Majority Leader George Mitchell proclaimed the nomination doomed and Republican leader Bob Dole conceded it would "take a miracle" to stave off defeat...