Word: defeatism
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...hours, the Harvard men’s soccer team could do nothing but wait.Sunday’s crushing 1-0 overtime defeat to Penn in the regular-season finale left the Crimson unsure if it was going to have the opportunity to play another match this season.Harvard (11-5, 5-2 Ivy) had finished third in the Ivy League and was far from being guaranteed a spot in the NCAA Tournament. The Crimson’s fate was out of its hands.“It was miserable,” co-captain Michael Fucito said...
...years ago.On the overcast afternoon of Nov. 24, 1968, with three minutes to go in the fourth quarter and the Bulldogs ahead 29-13, the Game—the final appearance for Skowronski and his senior teammates—seemed to be headed towards an inevitable Crimson defeat. “I felt totally crushed,” Harvard’s former center says. “This was the most important game of my life, and I was realizing that my career was over.”But with 42 seconds left, destiny intervened, the momentum...
Musgrave, Marilyn •defeat of goes unacknowledged - if acknowledging it means having the simple courtesy to call her opponent and concede...
This summer, discussions to build a stadium on the waterfront of St. Petersburg, Fla., fell apart, a significant defeat for team officials. They had hoped to have a new home for the team that could draw more season ticket holders. The Rays’ current venue, Tropicana Field, is a cavernous dome that lacks much charm...
...must be passed by a big majority in order to be truly legitimate in the eyes of the people. That seems unlikely. If the Sunni-Sadrist-secular alliance can break off a few MPs from Maliki's own Shi'ite-Kurdish block, they may even be able to defeat the proposition...