Word: lostness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...women's basketball team was still gunning for an Ivy League title, but the Crimson could not withstand the Tigers and lost, 71-54. Dartmouth clinched the championship...
...Harvard men's squash team, after collecting 72 consecutive victories, lost for the first time since February 6, 1982, dropping an 8-1 decision to a determined Princeton squad...
...addition, mainline religion has been undercut by some of its own cultural achievements. The churches persuaded people to embrace tolerance and inclusiveness, says Hartford Seminary's David Roozen, but in doing so lost their internal sense of identity. Similarly, liberal Protestant leaders encouraged antiauthority movements in the 1960s, only to find youths rejecting them as part of the despised Establishment...
...Church, an Episcopal weekly, complains that "national officials have taken positions which, frankly, the rest of us do not understand." There are also continual squabbles over the political stands by clergy who sound like McGovern-Mondale Democrats while lay members are largely Reagan-Bush Republicans. Several denominations have also lost members through conservative schisms...
...Having lost the past two national elections armed with a platform of unilateral nuclear disarmament, the Labor Party last week launched a strike against that controversial policy. Its national executive committee overwhelmingly adopted a proposal to scrap a 1981 commitment to dismantle Britain's nuclear arsenal without any quid pro quo from other countries...