Word: loses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...world of intelligence, it is whether you win or lose and not how you play the game that counts...
Valentine's Day was different this year in Massachusetts: it was 96 hours long. The extension was due to Governor Michael Dukakis, who realized that the recent blizzard had left ardent suitors trapped in several feet of snow. Worse, merchants estimated that they would lose $10 million worth of sales of candy, flowers and greeting cards. So Dukakis extended the Tuesday holiday to Friday, for "spiritual as well as economic reasons." To fulfill the spirit of the thing, he sent Valentine messages to his wife Kitty all week long...
...soldiers are contemptuous of the guerrillas, whom they dismiss (in the words of one sergeant) as "nothing but a bunch of bloody garden boys with weapons." Top officers are confident that the army cannot lose, militarily, and that it will have to be disbanded before it is beaten...
...lose his title? Simple. He was in a down phase in his emotional and physical cycles, only hours away from a physically critical day. A "triple low" day produced the abnormal heart rhythm that led to Elvis Presley's death last Aug. 16. And Sadat's peace initiative could not have come while Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin was in office because the Egyptian President's chart shows zero emotional compatibility with Rabin...
...night's 4-3 overtime loss to Cornell at Watson Rink "struck the fear of God" into Taylor, Harvard too has spent too much of this season shaking its head at missed opportunities and discarded momentum. Watson Rink, which only four years ago lodged a team that did not lose a home game, has become almost a neutral site as the iceman's current 4-5 record there indicates...