Word: worsted
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...long been taboo in military cultures for soldiers to complain about the invisible wounds of war. After a distinguished career as a SEAL commando, Waddell reached his breaking point following the worst disaster in SEAL history, in June 2005: a Chinook helicopter filled with eight SEALs and eight Army aviators was shot down while trying to rescue four comrades trapped by a Taliban ambush in the Kunar Mountains in Afghanistan. Waddell, who was stationed at the unit's base in Virginia Beach, had the agonizing task of sorting through the remains of his dead men - young warriors he had fought...
...were not very good, and that’s the result we got,” Harvard coach Ted Donato ’91 said. “I don’t wish to demean Dartmouth’s effort, but I thought it was one of our worst games of the season...
...impressive response to our worst performance at Army,” Harvard coach Tommy Amaker said. “I was really pleased to see how our kids were very focused, very determined against a team that is a lot better than what they displayed tonight...
...Times is right—that it’s just these spontaneous, surprising events for which we should be most appreciative. Chance can admittedly pack a painful punch: Didn’t all those foreclosed mortgages take us unawares too? Yet the hopeful thought that, even in the worst of times, tomorrow things might look up fundamentally relies on the notions of uncertainty and the pleasantly unexpected. We can at least be sure of that...
...Perhaps worst of all, the “vitality vs. security” argument masks a certain, purposeful interdependence in America, especially between generations. Democracy works on the premise that the social contract spans eras. Today’s young provide some protection for those who sacrificed in the past, and today’s elderly maintain a duty of active stewardship for those who will come in the future. There are live wires between us, and to describe the American contract of caring for citizens of other generations as a mere siphoning process, as Brooks does, is to cheapen...