Word: defeat
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...soaring high. (Aides warn him against looking cheerful.) His critics take comfort from history: an ungrateful British public voted Churchill out of office at war's end. Still, by that logic Brown is safe until the financial turbulence subsides. For a Premier who only a month ago was staring defeat in the face, the world's economic nightmare looks like an economic miracle...
...Crimson’s defeat came in spite of McKinley’s match-high 26 kills—a career high—her hitting percentage of .511, and her 19 digs, making up her second-straight double-double...
...Brown travels to Princeton on Saturday for a 1 p.m. kick. Harvard, meanwhile, kept itself in the race. There has not been a two-loss Ivy champion since 1982—when Harvard, Penn, and Dartmouth all finished 5-2 in conference play—so a second league defeat would be difficult to overcome. The Crimson, however, didn’t foreground that concern in Saturday’s victory. “We didn’t even talk about it,” Murphy said. “Just keep on the positives, get back...
...goals away,” junior forward Christina Hagner said.Harvard (5-3-3, 2-1 Ivy) hosted the Big Red (1-8-1, 0-3) on an unseasonably warm fall day at Ohiri Field. The Crimson was looking to match the level of play attained during its 3-1 defeat of Yale on Oct. 4, while Cornell sought a positive result after three straight Ivy losses.Harvard took the lead in the game’s 10th minute. A cross served in from the right side of the goal box deflected off a Big Red defender into the back...
...year,” Farrar said. “We came out and jumped on them. Guys were flying around, playing great team defense. But the lapse in the fourth proved decisive.”Although the two-goal loss represented an improvement over a 15-10 defeat at the hands of the Gaels in September, some Crimson competitors showed concern at the team’s lack of consistent execution.“I thought we were really moving forward as a team, but this weekend we really took a step back,” sophomore Jeff...