Word: beate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard Bridge Club beat more than 80 other teams in the recent National Bridge Championship, qualifying them to participate in the Collegiate Bridge Championship...
...Yale met up with a goalie named Doug Dadswell and an impressive group from Cornell. Dads well made 54 saves and Cornell beat Yale, 5-4, in double-overtime. The Big Red went on to win the championship. Yale lost to Harvard in the consolation game...
...media event with flowing blood and absurdist overtones. The aging Beat poet Allen Ginsberg chanted om in Lincoln Park. Jean Genet, the French homosexual playwright and ex-convict, wrote titillated prose about how attractive and powerful the cops' thighs were. Abbie Hoffman developed a cordial relationship with the plainclothes policemen assigned to tail him everywhere, but he shook them sometimes and spirited around town in a score of disguises...
Strategists for other candidates purport to find nothing strange in these political grants of indulgence. Brian Lunde, Paul Simon's campaign manager, says about Jackson, "You don't beat on someone who doesn't threaten you." But Iowa polling data suggest that Jackson is taking some white populist votes that might otherwise have gone to Simon. In similar fashion, a top strategist for George Bush argues, "There is no percentage in directly taking on Robertson unless he takes you on." But Robertson poses a clear threat to Bush: his Fundamentalist faithful have embarrassed the Vice President in the initial political...
...dropped hints that she is prepared to "go on and on," raising speculation that she aims to break the British record for all time. The competition: Sir Robert Walpole, whose 21 consecutive years of service (7,620 days, to be precise) starting in 1721 make him the man to beat...