Word: losers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...government's belief that the U.S. has failed to meet Hanoi halfway. "At times we have regretted its length," he said of the peace conference, "and wondered whether the paths followed have always been the speediest and surest." Aware of the Administration's reluctance to appear the loser in Viet Nam, he mentioned France's past agonies of pride over Southeast Asia and Algeria. The end of the war in Viet Nam for the U.S., he said, "will be the most precious of victories-a victory won over oneself...
...single character with a bundle of quivering, snarling petty neuroses and massive insecurities culled from Jules Feiffer's cartoons, he might have a mate to a Woody Allen show. The play that is struggling to be let out from his plays is the saga of the urban loser, frustrated by a world he never made and powerless to control or change it. This is the proposition Feiffer refuses to admit to himself. He still sees the theater as an instrument of social betterment. That is why he writes killer farces like Little Murders and now The White House Murder...
...should be another good meet," said Harvard coach Bill Brooks, whose team has come out the loser in the last two "good" meets. But Brooks added that he was extremely encouraged by his squad's hard work this past week after the disappointing loss to Princeton...
...understandable. Some of its most powerful engines have compression ratios so high that they cannot be adapted to lower-octane gasoline, and all but its three smaller engines could no longer be used. If the switch to lead-free gasoline is made, Chrysler will not be the biggest loser. Times might well be tougher for the Ethyl Corp., the largest producer of lead additives. Last week its stock sank to a low of 15, down from its 1968 high...
Neither Dartmouth nor Harvard has lost a meet all year, and the winner of their meet this afternoon in Hanover will take over first place in the powerful Eastern League. The loser will be lucky to finish higher than third by the time the season ends...