Word: defeatism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Following a 1-0 defeat over Dartmouth last Saturday, Harvard was in a perfect spot to take the title. All it needed was a tie or win against Brown...
Even though the Harvard players are excited about the weekend's results and the confidence it gives them for the rest of the season, they still expect some difficulty and refuse to overlook any competitor as a possible defeat...
...President says fast track "is not dead." But it ain't exactly living. Clinton stayed up until the wee small hours on Sunday but still had to concede defeat after House Speaker Newt Gingrich informed him they were about six votes short...
Kevin B. Acklin '98 is not only registered in Cambridge, but has also been actively involved in local politics as a volunteer on the City Council campaign of challenger David L.K. Trumbull. An unofficial first count early this morning showed a defeat for Trumbull, who heads the city's Republican party and was endorsed by the moderate Alliance for Change...
...their very different ways, each of the Big Three of modern Japanese literature--Yukio Mishima, Yasunari Kawabata and Junichiro Tanizaki--devoted himself to commemorating aspects of an older, purer Japan they all felt would wither after their country's defeat in World War II. That left their postwar successors, most notably Haruki Murakami, to record the ghosts and vacant lots of a land whose spirit seemed to have vanished, leaving a soulless, synthetic wasteland of Dunkin' Donuts parlors, automated fashion victims and cinder-block abortion clinics...