Word: besting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wasn't as though Dartmouth pulled any tricks out of a great green bag either. "They ran outside a little bit to start the game, but I think that was a diversionary tactic because they came right back to running from tackle to tackle, which is what they do best," Sabetti said. "They didn't show us anything we didn't expect. From my point of view it wasn't the coaches fault...
Despite the absence of the team's three best runners, the Harvard women's cross country squad managed a respectable sixth place finish in the New England Championships at Burlington, Vt., Saturday...
Kris Linsley led the Harvard onslaught, finishing 28th in 18:37 and Kat Taylor followed six seconds later for 35th. "Kat's performance was probably our best, considering that that was only her third cross country race in the past two years." Linsley said yesterday. Taylor has been recovering from a pulled hamstring injury incurred in England last year...
...said citizens should form the American Energy Corporation to break up the oil companies' monopoly. "Congress is the best thing money can buy," he said. "The oil companies can blackmail the people in power, so we have to establish the consumers' sovereignty...
Strobe Talbott's cynical Essay on "The Dilemma of Dealing with Dictators" [Sept. 24] clearly shows why we are so hated among the Third World nations. Talbott spends all his time telling us which despots we should back and which we should discard, according to our best interests. When a tyrant is no longer useful to us, we should invoke human rights. Only in the last two lines of his Essay does Talbott remember that the people in the distressed countries should have something to say about their own destiny...