Word: besting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson began its turnaround by edging Cornell, 1-0, on a leaping header by daredevil midfielder Tory Fair. Harvard then played its best soccer of the season in a thrilling 2-1 victory over Dartmouth...
...award is given every three years to a graduate or undergraduate whose collection of art or books best exemplifies the traditions of breadth, coherence and imagination exemplified by Hofer, who formed and gave to the College a collection wide in scope, original in conception and scholarly in purpose, according to a press release...
...Even if I can persuade Ellen Semonoff to vote my way," Connor said, "the best the tenants can ever do is a tie vote." In order to resolve most cases, he added, Semonoff "must make deals with the landlord representatives...
...best thing about L.P.'s is the packaging. They're the size that a piece of music is meant to be. You can hold an album's cover and read the liner notes and lyrics and grasp the full meaning--the full cosmic earth-shaking force that rock 'n roll at its best can be. I know they put all the same information in C.D.'s and cassettes these days, but it's always in the form of some fold-out thingamagig like the pamphlets they hand out on street corners about safe sex or finding Jesus or joining...
...hear that the politically correct response to the ongoing. NYNEX strike--the way that we students can best express our solidarity with the oppressed employees of the telephone company--is to refuse to pay our phone bills this month. To me, that seems a tempting way to "fight the power," but in the end it's a move that my roommates and I simply cannot afford to make...