Word: losers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...National Football Conference. Griese is the leading passer in the American Football Conference. Now, on the eve of the sixth annual Super Bowl, the two best young quarterbacks in professional football are preparing to establish a crucial difference in their parallel careers: the difference between winner and loser...
...Losers. Islamabad, of course, was the principal loser in the outcome of the war. But there were two others as well. One was the United Nations. The Security Council last week groped desperately toward trying to achieve an international consensus on what to do about the struggle, and ended up with seven cease-fire resolutions that were never acted upon at all. The other loser was Washington, which had tried to bring about a political settlement, but from the New Delhi viewpoint-and to other observers as well -appeared wholeheartedly committed to the support of Pakistan's military dictatorship...
...tone, the U.S. has, 1) destroyed whatever chance it had to be neutral in the East Asian conflict; 2) tended to reinforce the Russia-India, China-Pakistan lineup; 3) seemingly placed itself morally and politically on the side of a particularly brutal regime, which, moreover, is an almost certain loser; and 4) made a shambles of its position on the subcontinent...
...example, TV audiences were not ready for his first series, The Trials of O'Brien, in which he played a lawyer who could not resist a crap game or meet an alimony-payment deadline. Now, after the troubled '60s, viewers seem readier to identify with a loser hero. In the ratings among TV's new law-and-order leading men, Falk is murdering such handsome smoothies as Glenn Ford, Rock Hudson and James Garner...
...black literature of childhood, the book will not rank with Christina Stead's horror story of family life, The Man Who Loved Children. Lucia is less a person than an argument. Most adults, the book suggests, are losers, and most children feel the lash of a loser's fury a hundred times a day. To make the point, Author Grant makes Lucia's life a masochistic nightmare in a gallery of Halloween horribles. Her mother is a festering grievance, her father an intellectual wimp, her aunts and uncles high-church lobsters of menacing respectability...