Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Yale's ruggers, winners of last spring's Ivy tournament, carried an unblemished league slate into Saturday's match and were considered the favorites. Harvard possessed an unbeaten Ivy record of its own, and the Crimson proved that it was no fluke, overcoming a 7-6 halftime deficit to defeat the Elis...
Yale avenged its defeat in the feature match with wins in both the B and C struggles. The Elis scored all their points in the first half of the B match, then held off a late Crimson surge for a 10-6 victory. Alan Alberts accounted for the Harvard try and Dave Miller booted the conversion...
...ultimately, you come up with two talented parts that just can't complete the whole. And with that much ability hanging around, defeat--and it came by such narrow margins this year--means frustration...
...TIME correspondents covering the election across the country last week, the campaigns and the moments of victory or defeat produced some vivid impressions that will stay fresh years from now when they look back on Nov. 7, 1978. Midwest Bureau Chief Benjamin Gate, for example, followed Illinois Senator Charles Percy throughout his come-from-behind re-election battle, and witnessed an extraordinary victory speech. Reports Cate: "Wan and misty-eyed, Percy could not control the trembling of his hands as he read his statement. The tough race had humbled a normally proud man." After Philadelphians defeated a proposal that would...
...voters got Percy's message too. He was saved from the brink of defeat and returned to the Senate. He had belatedly discovered what most candidates had learned much earlier in the campaign. If they wanted to get elected, they had better propose some kind of cut in taxes or spending or both. The American people had soured on costly government and demanded relief ?now. That was, as much as any, the message of last week's off-year elections...