Word: defeatism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson writes, "Never has a losing coach been more amiable in defeat...
February 1, 1988: The Harvard hockey team follows an age-old formula: Crimson plus Beanpot equals defeat. Boston University is the recipient of another Harvard disaster. The Terriers go to the 'Pot final after knocking out the Crimson...
Harvard University has given the country five Presidents, and Michael Dukakis might make six. After his humiliating 1978 defeat for a second term as Governor, Dukakis fled to the sanctuary offered by Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, the university's newest professional school. When he regained the governorship four years later, he proclaimed that his second term would be a "test of what I have learned and what we try to teach at the school...
...besieged garrison towns around Afghanistan, sentries in camouflage uniforms guard mounds of duffel bags, stripped-down weapons and communications gear. The streets teem with jeeps, armored personnel carriers, trucks, tanks, half-tracks, command cars, vans, ambulances. The vehicles are the beasts of burden for a caravan of retreat and defeat that will begin this week to wend its way through the rugged passes of the Hindu Kush, north toward home along the Salang Highway, which stretches from Kabul to the Soviet border. The road was a "gift" from the U.S.S.R. to the people of Afghanistan in the 1960s. Western experts...
Four hundred years have passed since England defeated the Spanish Armada, thereby paving the way for its rise as a world power. This year Britons are saluting the victory with pageants, bonfires and banquets. Trouble is, the occasion has also spawned scholarly works and an exhibit at the National Maritime Museum that debunk myths about the English victory. Among them: that the genius of Sir Francis Drake was almost solely responsible for Spain's defeat. These accounts argue that stormy weather contributed powerfully to the armada's defeat...