Word: beaten
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last college match," a satisfied Havens remarked after the tournament. "I wanted to beat the guy from Princeton who had beaten me earlier this year and I wanted to show well against Mohtadi and I did, so I'm happy with my effort...
Saltzman, who later led off Princeton's victorious 400-yd. freestyle relay with a 45.48 split to make that cutoff, said he wasn't afraid that Cooper had beaten him so badly at the start of the 100: "I've been a distance swimmer my whole life, so I knew I'd get abused on the start. I just didn't think it would be by that much...
...Bilandic is a loser--a victim of the only force that has ever beaten the Machine in more than 50 years: Mother Nature. It didn't snow inches in Chicago this winter, it snowed feet--seven and a half of them. More than 100 people died of snow-related causes and for six weeks everyone else in Chicago had trouble walking across the street and getting their cars out of their driveways. The incumbent's diminutive challenger, a venomous former consumer sales commissioner by the name of Jane Byrne, branded the Mayor "the Abominable Snowman" for his lackadaisical clean...
...local reporters. When he failed to respond fast enough to a question about who had ordered SAVAK to torture its prisoners, a masked militiaman prodded him and whispered, "Say the Shah, say the Shah." Nassiri wore a bandage on his head and talked as if his throat had been beaten. The station was flooded with calls protesting the appearance of an obviously injured man. "We overthrew the Shah because of his violation of democracy and human rights," complained a Tehran businessman. "It would be absurd to begin our republic by indulging in just such tactics...
...Penn had a lot of hot shooting the whole game; but if we had played anywhere near our best, we would have beaten them," junior Wendy Carle, who led the Crimson in rebounds with ten, said yesterday...