Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...athletes would ever accept defeat on those terms. And indeed, as the Crimson, particularly its eight seniors, undressed and packed up its equipment for the final time, there was no joy. A stillness was in the locker room as 20 drained hockey players looked for reasons for the loss. But underneath the silence, underneath the hung-down heads and flushed heads, underneath the queasy feeling that there were no more chances, there was a stubborn stoicism...
Late yesterday, Mondale refused to concede defeat. "The net result is that we had a major contest and it is dead even. I find this encouraging," he said...
After Lapham took over, the magazine continued in a holding pattern until January, when Lapham's "Letter to the Reader" hinted at the changes to come. He addressed the "aura of intellectual defeat" surrounding national magazines dealing in ideas, and advanced the profound observation that "fewer and fewer people find the time to even glance at the papers...
...still have to remember that Cornell could lose to Dartmouth and that Princeton could lose one this weekend," senior Co-Captain Plutnicki said, for whom the defeat must feel the worst. He won't have another shot at the championship. "We have to keep our heads up," he added...
White American writers tended to end their books and their characters' lives as if there were no better existence for which to struggle The gloom of defeat is thick...