Word: losers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even a graceful loser must endure the inevitable round of post-mortems conducted by second-guessers who think they know why he lost or how he might have won. Last week it was Loser Dick Nixon's lot to suffer a post-mortem that, for pure tastelessness, rivaled Nixon's own graceless gibe at the press...
Tomorrow's soccer clash between the fourth place Crimson and second place Brown will definitely seal the fate of the loser, and will put the victor into strong contention for the league title...
...Silver Star for leading raiding parties aboard Japanese craft and engaging in hand-to-hand combat. Yet for all such exploits-and despite his heritage as a member of one of Massachusetts' most celebrated Yankee families-Endicott ("Chub") Peabody, 42, until last week was a chronic political loser...
This year, while Democrats were preoccupied by the Teddy-Eddie battle for the Senate nomination, Peabody won his party's endorsement for Governor. But he still looked like a loser against Republican Governor John A. Volpe, a former contractor who had balanced the budget and who, as an Italian Catholic, seemed likely to win many votes from Democratic voting blocs...
...television, which has accustomed voters to a panoply of gadgetry, punditry and minute-by-minute scoring to a degree unequaled in the past. Where else can the voter see the uncertain candidate of the early evening, the beamish victor of midnight, the sour loser of the early morning facing the ordeal by camera with his character showing...