Word: defeatism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With the determination the squad showed in its come-from-behind win against MIT and its defeat of Brown two weeks ago, the Crimson might just be able to focus the attention of the water polo world on the East Coast rather than the West. 1988 WOMEN'S WATER POLO SCHEDULE...
...vote in the Senate, followed by a 292-133 tally in the House, handed Reagan a severe political defeat and reversed a 1984 Supreme Court decision that sharply restricted the reach of four antidiscrimination statutes...
...recently became the first U.S. pitcher in 25 years to defeat the Cuban national team on its own turf. Now Jim Abbott, 20, who plays for the University of Michigan, has scored another first. Last week Abbott, who was born without a right hand, received the Sullivan Award as outstanding amateur athlete of the year, the only baseball player ever to be so honored in the prize's 58-year history. "They picked the worst athlete up here," said Abbott as he accepted his trophy. "Baseball players usually don't get that much respect." This one deserves...
...Albert Gore Sr. lose the Senate seat that he had held for 18 years. The father he adored had taken brave and unpopular stands against Southern fealty to segregation and then against the Viet Nam War, and he had lost his seat because of those stands. "His father's defeat was very traumatic to him," says his mother Pauline. It reaffirmed in the son an innate cautiousness and taught him the virtues of moderation, compromise, consensus...
...weeks before Super Tuesday, Gore gulped down the favored elixir of Democrats facing defeat: a healthy slug of old-fashioned populism. Suddenly the stiffly serious Gore began larding his speeches with nonstop promises to "put the White House back on the side of working men and women." There was nothing wrong with the sentiment except that Gephardt, Gore's main rival in the South, had long been telling the same blue-collar voters, "It's your fight...