Word: beaten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...found targets. In a village which had been retaken from the Communists the day before, an old peasant woman squatted at a roadside pond unconcernedly whacking at her laundry with a wooden paddle. Behind her on the mud wall of her burned-out hut the Reds, before they were beaten back, had splashed slogans in white paint: "Fight to Nanking!", "Land for the Tillers!" and "Capture the liar Chiang alive...
Besides Michigan football tricks, Coach Art Valpey brought along some Michigan collegianism. All season long, the Harvard boys had whooped it up-and still had plenty left for Yale, the arch-enemy (Princeton, which has beaten both Harvard and Yale this season, came second...
...Yale's best, Berkeley College. Before the game was over, half the Harvard team had paused for either a smoke or a beer: it was that kind of game. Kirkland won, 21-12. But before the sun went down on the Charles River, seven Yale college teams had beaten Harvard teams. That night in Boston nightspots, the strains of Bulldog, Bulldog drowned out Fair Harvard, possibly because Yale men go in more for that sort of thing...
...campus rally last week, California's Coach Lynn ("Pappy") Waldorf said he'd settle for a one-point victory. Some of the fans were sure that Pappy was just having his little joke. True, Stanford was the traditional big rival, but Stanford had been beaten five times already this season...
That's the Harvard team I've tried to tell you about. They were battered and beaten away from home. They sweated before the season and during the season. They were weak and powerful. They were great in flashing moments. A stirring greatness at West Point. A day of shame at Princeton. But they are still a team