Word: losers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...admission, is to prove to the skeptical that he can win elections again. Nixon has not, after all, won a general election in his own right since his 1950 Senate race. The primaries were to have been his means, and George Romney the man conveniently heading the loser's column. By driving Romney out of New Hampshire before the vote, Nixon certainly demonstrated strength rather than weakness. It was, as one of his aides put it, "the first T.K.O. in American politics...
...came to $45. For last week's fight with Harada, Rose flew economy-class to Japan and stayed in a second-class Tokyo hotel because the third-class hotel he tried first was already full. His cut of the purse came to $7,500, while Loser Harada took home...
...relieved of his coaching duties the CRIMSON received a letter from one of his staunchest supporters, who said the problem with Harvard basketball lay not in the coaching but in the recruiting. The coach's detractors replied that this might be true, but Wilson had been stamped as a loser and few decent basketball players were willing to play for him. It was a vicious circle...
...urbanity and self-effacing if slightly forced humor, before sizable crowds. For unlike Romney, Nixon is almost too well known. After eight years with Eisenhower, his loss to Kennedy, and his disastrous defeat by Pat Brown in California, he knows he must avoid seeming stale-and a loser-in the voters' minds...
...long run, of course, it's the old vicious cycle. As long as Mr. Wilson coaches basketball at Harvard, he and his teams will have the loser image. Good basketball players won't come here; they'll go to Princeton and Columbia. And the players who do come--lured by Harvard's prestigious position--will fall victim to the negative enthusiasm of Harvard basketball fans. It seems to me that Harvard will not produce a winner while Floyd Wilson is coach. Whether victory should be sacrificed to the development of young men's characters is a hugely complex and difficult...