Word: winner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fourth place. He is third after eleven of the 18 laps, second after 13. He has, we learn later, broken the course record three times in succession. But he runs out of race, and although he is gaining fast, at the end he is still 2.5 sec. behind Winner Doug Bethke's Corvette. Newman jokes with Bethke on the victory stand, puts his arm around Joanne, smiles for the photographers, and then goes back to the trailer to rage. Later, very seriously, he apologizes for losing. He does not really cheer up until the awards dinner that night, when...
...brawler with the looks of a fallen angel, and he sneers at emotion: "My mother loved me but she died." Hud is rotten. He is trying to have his father declared incompetent so he can sell his ranch to oilmen. But Newman gave him a crooked, loser-winner smile that caught at the heart, and although the script didn't really justify it, he was a scapegrace hero...
...spirit of the team is that of a winner. The kids experienced success last year and they liked it," he says...
Senior Co-Captain Shelby Calvett paced the Crimson attack by snagging first places in both 200-meter freestyle and the 200-meter backstroke. Harvard's other double winner was junior Debbi Zimic, who captured the 1000-meter freestyle and the 200-meter IM events...
...were not there cannot come close to understanding an indication that Vietnam vets can face up to and even take pride in what happened to them The second message is more simple it is time--albeit very late--that the nation, too, treat the Vietnam vet as a winner who deserves as much compassion and honor as veterans of more popular wars Ideally, then, the monument's unveiling can serve as the turning point in how Americans look at the Vietnam War and its survivors...