Word: beaten
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...triumph over Penn on Soldiers Field on the first day of Spring Break that marked one of the few times in recent history Harvard had beaten the Quakers by more than one goal...
Arizona State 5, Harvard 3--By all rights, the Crimson should have beaten the Sundevils, who have won five national championships and have the best record in baseball over the past 13 seasons. Sophomore Jim Chenevey pitched an extraordinary game, only to watch his teammates strand 14--yes, 14--runners and go without a single extra-base...
...there really a trend toward conservatism? Or is there simply a trend against the people who happened to be in office during the economic crisis--between 1975 and 1982--and (who) were often Socialists or Social Democrats? In Germany, for example, you had Helmut Schmidt, and he was beaten. In periods of difficulty there is a feeling of selfishness. Maybe the traditional way the Social Democrats and Socialists had of intervening, with its emphasis on the state, was a bit too heavy. Our ways of thinking about our problems had to be questioned. It is true in France...
...blacks trying to register, many merely for entering the whites-only front door of the courthouse. King on March 5, 1965, asked his followers to march 54 miles from Selma to the state capital in Montgomery to dramatize the injustice. "I can't promise that you won't get beaten," he warned. "But we must stand up for what is right...
...dreams of glorious escape to life, let them taste their new world, then watch them scurry back to the comfortable and familiar. His comedy would be cruel if Brooks were not so good at playing the victims he concocts: so pompously thrilled as he rationalizes their lurches off the beaten track, so bone scared when things go awry. In Hagerty and Garry Marshall, the TV mastermind who plays a casino boss, he has glorious foils. Lost in America does not conclude; it merely ends, as if Brooks had run out of money or inspiration before he could think...