Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Emotionalism. At the speech, Reager Fisher, Williston Professor of Law appealed to the audience's intellectual side, saying that by listening to Weinberger one would have a greater artillery with which to shoot him down. Fisher is undoubtedly correct, yet there are other goals beside being able to defeat the Secretary in a debate (as many in the audience would no doubt have been able to do). Emotionalism at the speech or at the Grenada rally serves two important purposes quite apart from this...
...differences in style reverberated beyond the voting booth. When he conceded defeat, Black Leader Melvin King was the first to acknowledge that the exemplary campaign represented a victory for Raymond Flynn and "a giant step forward" for the city of Boston. The contest between Maurice Ferre, a Puerto Rican, and Suarez, a Cuban, was so fractious that it left Miami more divided than ever...
...them. In a separate incident near by, the soldiers reportedly fired on a group of more than 30 civilians, killing some outright and forcing others into a lake, where they drowned. Said a guerrilla boastfully: "This type of behavior reflects the agony of an army that can't defeat us on the battlefield...
...first-round defeat to Lafayette and the 84-50 setback at Maine's hands in the consolation round left the Crimson with an 0-3 mark. The cagers open their Ivy slate at Dartmouth tomorrow...
...that we are "the best." People who have nothing to do with what happens on the field think it is some reflection on their greater worth. They are apt to harbor grudges when their self image is attacked. Losing teams have been turned on by fans who took a defeat too personally. Mickey Rivers almost never plays center field in Fenway Park and when he does he wears a batting helmet for protection against the cherry bombs thrown by fans who remember his part in the Yankees--Red Sox brawl...