Word: losers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...student who finished second in his class at the Quaker Whittier College and a less gifted football player who regularly warmed the bench. In later years, he was to recall his coach's advice: "You must get angry, terribly angry about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not on his victorious opponent or his teammates." Nixon learned only half the lesson, and all his life took his anger out on his opponents as well as himself...
...Thanks for a revealing article about Philadelphia and the Flyers. Philadelphia is now dispelling its loser image, with its professional hockey, soccer, lacrosse, baseball and tennis teams all in first place in their respective divisions...
...flaw in Tarnopol is that as a book boy, he has "fallen in love with those complicated fictions of moral anguish" he keeps reading about. The depths of tragedy-that, Tarnopol thinks, is what an artist and a man must plumb. He yearns romantically to be a golden loser as well as a golden winner. Furthermore, he has a notion that one must prove one's manhood, not on the battlefields of war (like old-style machismo novelists) but in the combat zones of love. Nor is he fantasizing sexual conquest. For, paradoxically, what woman represents to Tarnopol...
...great strength of Bailyn's book that it understands and apparently sympathizes with both sides--but especially with Hutchinson, the embattled loser--and yet acknowledges that the future and America's hopes lay with Hutchinson's opponents...
Harvard will resume its schedule Saturday at noon as the squad faces Providence. The winner of that game gets a rest until sunday, while the loser must take on New Hampshire in a 3 p.m. game...