Word: losers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...smiles and easy badinage, however, Connally projects an icy, faintly bullying power that compels attention. His demands can be overwhelming. In a widely remembered remark about U.S. international trade and monetary goals. Connally summed up his position: "All I want is a fair advantage." He is a bad loser. Says one Texas politician who has been up against him: "He is totally unforgiving of his political enemies. He'll carry his grudges to the grave. He can also be tenacious as hell, clawing and pushing his way past any obstacle." Connally is no less ambitious than Johnson...
...many seasoned correspondents in Saigon, the U.S. will inescapably be seen as the chief loser in the one-man presidential election race. After years of official assurances from Washington that democracy was at work in South Viet Nam, Richard Nixon recently-and accurately-declared that true democracy was "generations" away. Nor had it been brought closer by U.S. policy in recent months. From Saigon, TIME's Bureau Chief Jon Larsen cabled this assessment...
...sign Ted Williams as the Senators' manager. But last fall, overriding Williams' objections, Short traded half of the team's infield and $80,000 to get Denny McLain, Detroit's bad-boy pitcher. McLain reciprocated by becoming this season's first 20-game loser. As the Senators disintegrated from a mediocre but interesting ball club to a bad but uninteresting one (they are currently 33 games out of first place in the league's Eastern Division), home attendance dropped from 824,789 last year to 631,933 so far this season. Short did nothing...
Talese's individualism gained him a reputation as a prima donna at the New York Times, where he began as a copyboy in 1953 and left as a hot-shot feature writer twelve years later. His specialty was the out-of-the-way, the offbeat, the loser, the star that has fallen or faded. Bill Bonanno was a natural for Talese. But how does a journalist get close to the Mafia? Very slowly and very carefully. Research on the book took nearly seven years from the time in 1965 when Talese first introduced himself to Bonanno in a courtroom...
...Your comment that "Even though he was a three-time loser, Jackson went to prison for a minor criminal offense, which scarcely warranted an eleven-year sentence," is a gross error which cannot go unnoticed...