Word: defeatism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard lost to to ninth-ranked Kentucky, 5-1, and Wisconsin, 5-2. But the Crimson bounced back in the consolation quarterfinals to defeat 15th-ranked...
After the vote, the White House went on a binge of finger-pointing. Some Bush aides blamed the stunning defeat on ex-Tower aides who, they said, had been lobbying ineptly on Capitol Hill without proper supervision. The Tower men scoffed back that they had been watched closely all the way by Sununu. Said one: "Sununu has been in on all the major decisions." But all sides agreed on the real villain: Sam Nunn. Several accused the chairman of deciding secretly two weeks ago that Tower had to go and then browbeating his Democratic colleagues into a party-line vote...
Bush, at least initially, refused to admit defeat on Tower and stubbornly insisted that his nomination be debated before the full Senate. On the morning after the committee turned thumbs down on him, Tower reported to work at his temporary office at the Pentagon. In a meeting convened in Tokyo shortly before the committee vote, Bush forbade his aides even to speculate on possible successors to the Pentagon job. If any violators of that rule could be identified, the President declared, "I would like to kick some serious hide." Though a barrage of calls on Tower's behalf from Quayle...
...time of the kiss-in, members of Defeat Homophobia said that they were pleased that a student was finally willing to come forward with a complaint. They said they had difficulty in the past, because although there had been several incidents of sex-orientation harassment at Harvard, few students were willing to make their complaints public...
...special meeting called by Mather House Master Jeffrey G. Williamson, residents filled the dining hall in what was described as a heated debate with students objecting both to the characterization of Mather as intolerant and the manner and timing of Defeat Homophobia's protest...