Word: beate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though Richie Horner, beat by a mediocre afternoon, did not break any of the records he was chasing at the close of his stellar Harvard career this 96th edition of THE GAME was otherwise a total Harvard party right from the start...
City independents, the traditional foes of rent control, did what they had to do to keep their council edge--just barely. Walter Sullivan, as usual, led all comers in the vote, but his margin slipped--he only beat his liberal namesake David by 26 votes. Relying on his strong personal network, Walter Sullivan, an assistant clerk of courts whose father served as a councilor at the tail end of the Depression and who is entering his 13th term on the board, will keep his seat as long as he wants it--more than can be said for most...
...problem is that the Eagles are still testing their new wings. At their early-October Boston Garden concerts, they included only four of the new songs in their two-hour sets: "In the City," "I Can't Tell You Why," "Heartache Tonight"--a cut with an irresistable, pulsating beat and torchy lyrics--and the title track. The disjointedness of these four songs, especially when interspersed in the bloc of old classics, underlined the group's growing pains...
Feeling he had been misused, Baker bounced back fast. He made a dramatic entry into the race for Senate minority leader in 1977 and beat out the favored Senator Robert Griffin of Michigan. He proved surprisingly effective in a generally thankless job, welding the independent-minded Republican Senate barons into a cohesive opposition without making enemies. Says Nevada's G.O.P. Senator Paul Laxalt, Ronald Reagan's campaign chairman: "Nobody has a bad word to say about Howard...
...entirely possible too that Park flared up in anger and even tried to beat down Kim. Somebody then squeezed the trigger. We know that to the last moment of his life, Park remained adamant and aloof...