Word: pessimistically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...name was prophetic. As coach of the Fighting Irish, Leahy piled up a record which rivaled even that of Knute Rockne. In eleven seasons, his Notre Dame teams won 87 games (and four national championships) while losing only eleven. But Perfectionist Leahy was a sideline-pacing, hat-crushing pessimist who drove himself harder than he drove his teams, was forced to go to the Mayo Clinic for repeated physical checkups. Last season, stricken with acute pancreatitis, he was even given last rites. This week, on doctors' orders to take life easier, 45-year-old Frank Leahy resigned. Said Leahy...
...Indianapolis, rushing the football season a bit, Notre Dame Coach Frank Leahy, a notorious pessimist, glumly predicted: "I'll be amazed if we make a single first down in ten games...
Before the 1952 football season began, Notre Dame's Coach Frank Leahy, a pluperfect pessimist, glumly predicted an "awful rough season" for his green team, made up mainly of sophomores. As it turned out, Notre Dame managed to make it even rougher on the opposition...
...voted for Tom Dewey in 1944. In that case, said the friend, Nixon ought to come home and try for the job. Recalls Nixon: "Voorhis looked impossible to beat. He was intelligent, experienced, came from a well-known family. Why did I take it? I'm a pessimist, but if I figure I've got a chance, I'll fight...
...usual, he has glazed the legend with elegant mockery; the notions of Freud creep in to jostle the miracles of faith. Here is a delightful story, Mann seems to say: thanks to God's mercy, an Oedipus with a happy ending. And Mann is too good a pessimist not to conceal his own derisive smile...