Word: beate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...love to play UMass," Albers said. "We think we're one of the top teams in the nation and can beat any team in the nation...
...real effort on defense, in terms of sliding," Anderson said. "When you let a team beat you by allowing the people who you know are their best players to score all the goals, that's not much of an effort...
...caught ball-watching," Leary said. "I think a big thing in the first half was ground balls--they beat us to a lot of ground balls...
...phrase everyone in Grand Forks, North Dakota, eventually utters: You sure can't beat the quality of life here. Never mind that it's like Siberia for half the year and that the only rise in the land is the curve of the planet. Nature can be a witch, they would admit--even before the 500-year flood that submerged the town last week, forcing the evacuation of 50,000 people and sparking fires that destroyed half the historic business district. Still, you just can't beat it. And it took no more than a day or two of watching...
...like Curtis' I Fought the Law, tiptoe toward depression, then poke it in the ribs. The broody lyrics of Nick Lowe's Battlefield ("All around there is desolation/ And scenes of devastation/ Of a love being torn apart") get swallowed and spat out by the jouncy banjo, the skiffle beat and the Jordanaires-style backing vocals, till the whole thing sounds like a minstrel show staged by Grand Ole Opry; everyone has a high time playing at misery...