Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard women's rugby club won its 20th straight game without a defeat Saturday at Colby College...
...become a battleground. In Los Angeles, kindergarten teachers are assigning homework. In Minneapolis, "competency tests" help decide which tots advance to the first grade. A full day of classes has become the rule for all New York City kindergartens. But in neighboring Connecticut, an outcry helped to defeat statewide full-day legislation, and more protests are being heard across the country as pressure grows for tougher early schooling...
...four of the extraordinary baseball teams braced to play off this week qualify as flabbergasting. But while the Tigers and Royals have sampled defeat, and the Padres have done more than that, only the Cubs have stood for disillusionment, and their first success in 39 years has wrought a national catharsis. For Cub fans actually from Chicago, where this way of strife is passed down like a pickax from father to son, it must be gently annoying to find so many noble sufferers going public, besides George Will and the other political columnists breaking out in their regular rash...
Everywhere he glanced he saw defeat, "even in the eyes of the ushers," and found no charm in it. Green wanted lights and still does. He did not want Ernie Banks, the Cubs' living monument. They had been paying Ernie to be Ernie. (Who better for the job?) Seeing other uses for the money, Green asked waivers on tradition and began redoing his roster in ex-Dodgers and ex-White Sox and ex-Red Sox and ex-Phillies most of all. Notably Second Baseman Ryne Sandberg, Leftfielder Gary Matthews, Rightfielder...
...trenches. Terkel, a tireless 72, has lugged his tape machine cross-country and abroad to record memories of World War II, "the good war." The quotation marks are important. Terkel's army of disparate witnesses generally agrees that the defeat of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan was an unconditional virtue. But the years since 1945 have taken a toll on that good feeling. Korea, Viet Nam and the rat race slowly eclipsed the enthusiasms and certainties of youth. Former enemies became allies; old comrades-in-arms are now adversaries. Robert Lekachman, an economics professor and Army survivor...