Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reason for their lack of success, and the astounding performance of the 1967 Red Sox, is as hackneyed as it is true. The old Sox were cursed by a losing mentality. So what if you finish eighth or ninth, whether you win this game or lose it? It's not going to help anybody's paycheck. The players had one overriding interest: themselves. Such self-interest obviously hurts the team, and it puts incredible pressure on the individual players. They are fighting a battle alone...
...Bobby Kennedy had some part in persuading him to make the run, though the two have never been close friends; Moynihan feels he should be as critical of Kennedy as he can be within the framework of their similar ideo logical positions. "I didn't have much to lose," says Moynihan of his only try for elective office. "It was like a $2 bet at the races." He lost the bet-Queens District Attorney Frank O'Connor defeated him handily. The day after the election, the telephone rang: the M.I.T.-Harvard Joint Center asked him to be director...
...green with white polka dots. On the last day he had the classic gambler's experience. On the way to the airport, he stopped in the lobby for a last turn at roulette, bet the birthdates of his six children, won, kept on winning. "I couldn't lose," he recalls, "and I had to leave." Finally he bet his own birthdate-and lost...
...compulsive gambler is by definition an extreme case, but many of his motivations are shared in milder form by all gamblers. Anthropologist Charlotte Olmsted, who made a study of the subject in Heads I Win, Tails You Lose, believes that "many male gamblers use gambling as a substitute for sex. This is why you see so much of it in lumber camps or among soldiers. It helps avoid a certain amount of fighting as well as homosexuality." A lot of people clearly play for fun or excitement, and only secondarily for the just-maybe chance of winning some money...
...many compulsive gamblers admit that their strongest drive is to lose, not win. The classic example of this self-destructive type was Dostoevsky, whose incentive to write was often to get money for gambling; when he had it, he would boast that he was going to give fate "a punch on the nose!" Fate, of course, always ducked. In Dostoevsky and Parricide, Freud suggested that for the writer fate represented the father figure from whom he was asking punishment...