Word: losses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gold Helmet Award-winner as New England's Division One player of the year at season's end, McDermott's final year of football at Harvard saw no pomp, no hardware, but no loss of self-respect, as the tight end played steady and hard and finished tied for the third place on the all-time Crimson receiving parade...
...nature of the round-robin tournament often made it sensible for a team to play for a tie against any opponent that seemed dangerous, and to play for a win -thus committing defensive forces and risking a loss-only against the worst teams. In the typical game, each team fortified its own goal so thoroughly that only thinly manned patrols could be sent forward, and their efforts seemed more reconnaissance than aggression. If the opposing defense dozed off in a body, a goal might be scored, since the individual attackers were superbly skilled, but the likely game result...
...been a long time since the Argentines had had anything to honk and wave flags about, and if they could not cheer a win, they would cheer a loss or a kiss-your-sister draw. For one thing, Argentina's inflation rate during the past year has been a staggering 170%-highest in the world. More important, the Argentines have survived-most of them-a decade in which the disastrous Juan Peron returned from 18 years in exile to spread economic and political chaos. It has been a time in which the left-wing Montoneros murdered, kidnaped, tortured...
...week. He moved to Hollywood and, at 22, sized up the pitfalls of the studio system in record time. Without ever unpacking his bags, he borrowed money to buy his way out of MGM. Back in New York, he landed a supporting role in a William Inge play, A Loss of Roses. Though the show flopped on Broadway, Elia Kazan happened to see it. "I liked Warren right away," the director recalls now. "He was awkward in a way that was attractive. He was very, very ambitious. He had a lot of hunger, as all the stars do when they...
...Race preparation affected both squads. Previously unscathed Yale threw the crew rankings askew by suffering its first loss of the season to an unheralded Dartmouth squad: Johnson promptly held his crew out of the IRA championships at Syracuse in order to devote full time to preparations for the Harvard race...