Word: beaten
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Zealand tack for tack in the opening minutes of the first race, Conner finished with a commanding 18-min. lead. In Friday's second meeting Conner again blazed ahead, winning by a comfortable 21 min. Back on land after the first contest, the Kiwis complained that Conner had not beaten them by a large enough margin. They argued that Conner slowed down to make Stars & Stripes seem more equal to their big boat, thereby defusing Fay's claim of a mismatch. Asked by a reporter if he were "dogging it," Conner snapped, "I'm sailing a cat. Someone else...
Defending Ivy League champion Harvard has beaten Columbia in nine straight games. The Crimson has blanked the Lions the past two years...
...high school coach and former Queens College star, was asked to referee a neighborhood game. Vaughn, who had helped many youngsters develop their court skills as an incentive to go to college, made some calls that angered the gamblers. He was followed off the playground and fatally beaten by a known thug. The stakes in the contest were estimated...
...times on one block. In El Paso panhandlers congregate at the busiest intersections, hauling children into traffic to tap on the windows of trapped cars. In Chicago they roam the churches, taking their own collections. In Seattle, where a law has been passed banning "aggressive begging," a man was beaten to death in June after allegedly rebuffing a panhandler...
...even under the new, more equitable rules, says Korb, "anybody with a grain of sense could have beaten the draft." Some college students deliberately flunked their Army examinations. Others depicted themselves as conscientious objectors or fought the Selective Service System in the courts. An estimated 40,000 eligible males fled the U.S., most of them emigrating to Canada...