Word: losers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Banished to the loser's bracket, the Crimson then faced Princeton for their second battle of the day. Normally quite peaceful creatures, the Tigers went wild. Minutes into the game a Nassau nabob trashed one of Harvard's own and the war was on--kick in the shins followed punch in the stomach followed smash in the face. Smarting from its earlier loss to Yale, the Crimson wasn't taking things lightly...
...little more than a year ago, Hale Champion was a loser. He ran in the March 9 Massachusetts primary as a delegate to the Democratic national convention, pledged to Rep. Morris K. Udall (D-Ariz.). Although he came in second in the Mass primary, just slightly behind Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace and well ahead of Jimmy Carter, Champion couldn't pull enough votes to get on the delegate's train to New York. One might have thought that Champion's political career would end there. But in the wake of Jimmy Carter's march through the primaries...
...challenge match wystem works is pretty complicated, but it goes something like this. Each player has a numerical rank from last year and from previous challenge matches. One player challenges the next highest player to a match. The loser of the match then becomes eligible for a challenge from the next lowest player. The top six play varsity...
Eugene McCarthy, former Senator from Minnesota and a three-time loser in bids for the presidency, reflected on the tenuous relationship between poetry and politics before his reading...
...into a game where some people lose out. Contemporary political fiction suffers from this affliction: many American writers have grown self-satisfied, and this persistent complacency has lent their works about as much novelty and excitement as a Harold Stassen campaign address. When that happens, everyone is a sure loser...