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...team, weakened by its trial by fire, was Bryant's only loser, 1-9. Two years later, Texas A & M won the Southwest Conference title. Still Bryant drove his players fiercely. John David Crow, a halfback who won the Heisman Trophy in 1957, recalls going into the dressing room after practice, pulling off his sweat-soaked uniform and, too tired to stand, sitting on a chair in the shower. As he relaxed, Bryant called the team back on the field for another practice. Baking in the sun, Crow fainted and was out for three hours. The first sight...
...purge that soon became known as the Sunday Massacre removed six of his 19-man ruling Politburo. The party leaders had gathered at a Central Committee meeting simply to discuss the strike. Instead, Gierek found himself thrown into a bitter confrontation with his party rivals. He clearly emerged the loser. Ousted were some of his closest colleagues, including Premier Edward Babiuch and Jan Szydlak, head of the government's official Central Council of Trade Unions...
...revere his brother John, had left an ugly scar. Finding, when he began to falter, that professed "old friends" in the Senate and the nation's statehouses would not even return his phone calls shocked him into the realization of just how lonely it was to be a loser...
...this time, it will be with a sense of resignation, knowing that they merely cast anti-Reagan ballots. And in supporting Carter, the left will submerge itself once again, proving to future candidates that they need not worry about the liberal vote as long as there is an impotent loser trying to prove his virility by leading the Republican ticket. And there always...
...only loser in the deal appears to be the buddy depositor. Normally, he would earn much more interest if he placed the funds in a money-market fund rather than in a bank's passbook account or certificate of deposit. That should be enough to break up a friendship...