Word: defeatism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard football team suffered its worst defeat in 31 years here Saturday at Franklin Field, falling to the University of Pennsylvania...
PERHAPS the most disturbing of last week's election results, aside from Dan Quayle ascending to the vice presidency, was the defeat of three-term Sen. Lowell Weicker (R-Conn.). The defeat of Weicker, an iconoclast who came to national prominence in 1973 as a member of the Senate Watergate Committee, represents a loss to the GOP and to the nation...
Stoll commented that although Morris may not have intentionally designed the virus to be destructive, he did take deliberate measures to make sure that the virus would be difficult to defeat--and that he would not be caught...
Although he missed his opportunity to cut the federal budget deficit, Gov. Michael S. Dukakis now must balance the Massachusetts budget, as he returns to the State House upon his presidential defeat...
...thousands of Democratic partisans gathered at the World Trade Center last night were prepared for a loss by Gov. Michael S. Dukakis. Even so, as the election returns rolled in, the crowd seemed unprepared for the stunning defeat...