Word: beate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Higginson admitted yesterday he was a little surprised by the strong time of the varsity. (The time beat a powerful MIT heavyweight clocking by 8 seconds in the near perfect racing conditions.) However, Higginson said yesterday. "I'm a bit suspicious of good first performances. But considering that Columbia was not much better than in previous years and provided little challenge, the time was a good...
Radcliffe, stymied by an unfamiliar and well-disciplined Pennsylvania zone defense, fell behind early in the first half, 3-0, and was forced to play catch-up ball. Barb Matson was able to beat the zone, twice cutting the Penn lead to two goals...
...told a ping-pong opponent, "If you beat me. I'll give you Cuba," and on another occasion decreed that since the baseball team he was pitching for was losing, the game would go into extra innings...
...federal prison for income tax evasion. Yet despite his lust for wealth, Parr felt affection for the local people and won many friends. His influence was so strong that when a Parr nominee already on the ballot disobeyed the boss a few weeks before the election, Parr managed to beat him with a write-in candidate...
...Oakland, Calif., and a warm reception from Bay Area civic and military officials, Daly slipped away to a Tokyo hotel for a needed night's rest. "I've managed to get 14 hours of sleep in the past 14 days," he said, "and I'm beat." Operating at full throttle in South Viet Nam, Daly had argued unsuccessfully with U.S. AID and embassy officials for authority to fly hundreds of additional orphans out of Viet Nam and wired Secretary of State Kissinger demanding permission to send a 747 mercy flight into beleaguered Danang. He also traded punches...