Word: loss
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...humiliating loss in this morning's three-mile race was not followed by the kind of comeback we hoped for in this afternoon's 1500m piece. Admittedly we didn't have much preparation at higher ratings, and we've only been on the water three week. The rating was low, the ratio was elusive and the set was sloppy...
Kalil, who leads the team in scoring with seven goals and seven assists for 21 points, and Nagle, who also has seven goals on the season, were kept off the score-sheet Saturday in Harvard's 2-0 loss to No.13 Boston University...
Harvard and Princeton are in a three-way tie with Cornell for second in the Ivy League, and a loss to Princeton this weekend would all but kill Harvard's title hopes...
...best pieces of advice my father ever gave me came after Game 6 of the 1986 World Series. "Never place the burden of your life's happiness in the hands of others," he said, "especially the Red Sox." I was only eight years old and devastated by Boston's loss at the hands--or feet--of Bill Buckner. My dad, himself a diehard fan for now more than 50 years, was trying to put a brave face on things while also teaching me an important "life lesson...
...both on TV and (thanks to the kindness of friends) at Fenway, the phone rang. It was my dad, repeating his old mantra, holding back his own frustration. I like to think I've learned a bit from my relatively short career as a Red Sox fan, that each loss is a little less painful than the one before, cushioned by the memories of errors more egregious and runners stranded even closer to home. Maybe I have, but Monday night's sad loss to the Yankees was catastrophic and in some ways seemed for a while worse even than that...