Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Restic, as usual was gracious in defeat, far more gracious than I would have been. "There are two sides to this game," he said, "and you have to be able to accept both sides." Was he antagonized by Duffner's punitive coaching style...
...when the final whistle blew at the Stadium, the Crusaders had handed Harvard its worst defeat in 22 years, a 41-0 thrashing...
...sobering mistake-filled defeat, which marked the Crimson's widest losing margin ever in the Joe Restic era, evened Harvard's record at 1-1 (1-0 Ivy) on the young season...
That effort, along with a 3-0 season-opening defeat of MIT, earned the booters a 20th-place spot in yesterday's national rankings...
...Huddleston defeat taught campaign consultants another lesson as well. "An attack unanswered," says Squier, "is an attack agreed to." In other words, you had better fight back. In Louisiana's Senate race, Republican Henson Moore's ad campaign uses a sleek series of voter-in-the-street encounters to ask the significance of the number 1,083. After a series of wild guesses -- a new tax form? the year the Normans conquered England? -- a narrator supplies the answer: the number of floor votes Democratic Candidate John Breaux has missed in 14 years in the House of Representatives...