Word: losing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remember looking around and I saw that everyone on my team was losing," Vigna says. "It was so depressing: I thought we were going to lose and not go to the NCAA tournament. But luckily we all turned around...
...like almost all college experiences, the angst had its redeeming qualities: "True we were jealous maniacs and looked at each other's accomplishments as part of a zero-sum game: You win, I lose," Schumer writes. "But it was because of the turmoil we were in that our friendships during that period were so rich and intense...
...police officer Kevin Davis, a Black, has also filed a complaint with MCAD to be reinstated to a job he lost in April for his alleged repeated sexual harrassment. Davis is one of five officers to lose his job for misconduct in the past six years...
...latest HBO concert, Share the Warmth, he offered pungent comments on everything from Iranscam to Lucille Ball ("A 75-year-old woman performing slapstick comedy -- is that funny to you?"), along with hapless autobiographical asides. "I lost my job," he whimpers. "No, wait. I didn't really lose my job. I mean, I know where my job is still. It's just when I go there, there's this new guy doing it." Underneath the shrieks and stammers, a shrewd comic mind is percolating...
Trebelhorn is not an inflexible headmaster. His normal rules include neckties on team flights, the announcement of which brought a gasp. O.K., he said, "start the year with ten wins in a row, and we'll all lose the ties." When the tenth victory came against Texas, the Brewers unbuttoned their collars and sighed dreamily, "Just...