Word: beaten
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard career comes to a close, John says, "I've never beaten Yale in anything and I'd like to go out a winner. One of the things that gave me an incentive to play in college was losing my last game in high school...
...Newton has been remarkably successful in defeating the charges against him. Callins, the beaten tailor, changed his story several times, and when the case went to trial last month, he said he could not remember who had hit him. Newton was acquitted of assault, convicted only of the relatively minor gun charge for which he was sentenced last week. Newton was also involved in a barroom shooting in Santa Cruz last May, but charges against him were dropped. As for the killing of Kathleen Smith, Newton says: " don't know anything about it. I had heard I was going...
...only to St. Peter's in Rome. Work on the cathedral continued through two world wars and a depression. During the blitz of 1940, King George VI came to Liverpool and told church officials: "Keep on with the work, if only in a small way. Refuse to be beaten." Work continued even after bombs damaged the walls and blew out several windows of the completed Lady Chapel. The pounds of merchant benefactors and the pence of a devoted public paid the bills: over the years the cathedral has cost more than $11 million and only $100,000 more remains...
...outcome of the game is about as easy to predict as the King-Dukakis primary. The wishbone-based Quakers play very. very well on their familiar rug, having beaten Lehigh and Columbia and tied Yale. The Crimson, on the other hand, has a personality schizophrenic enough to qualify for some psychology textbooks...
Both teams have beaten their common opponents, usually by similar margins, but Harvard has shutout Brown twice while UMass tied them, 3-3. If it rains, a wet field will hurt UMass more since they rely heavily on their ground game, but most indications are that the game will be close...