Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second half Rutgers rally sent Princeton to its first defeat, 24-0, as football's oldest rivalry came to the ultra-modern Meadowlands Complex in East Rutherford...
...feng ("We support your struggle"), no substantial increase in aid has been forthcoming. Diplomatic observers in Southeast Asia believe that if the Pol Pot regime should be toppled by Viet Nam or by a coup d'etat, Peking would withdraw from Cambodia, cutting its losses while attributing the defeat to the weaknesses of an unworthy ally...
...possibility of a Yankee defeat became more and more imminent, the spirits of the Sox and their fans were revived. And when Jim Rice knocked his first pitch of the game into left field for a base hit--becoming the American League's first slugger to reach 400 total bases since Joe DiMaggio in 1937--the hope was there...
...where the Crimson gridders will host the Minutemen of the University of Massachusetts in a non-conference tilt at 1:30. The Harvard contingent will be trying to avenge last year's loss to the Minutemen and notch their first win of this season after last week's disappointing defeat at the hands of Columbia, "The Germ of the Ocean...
...justice--all based on shortsighted conceptions of American strategic and economic interests. U.S. policy in Angola provides the most egregious example. The U.S. made a practical analysis that the Portuguese were in Africa to stay--that the national liberation movements lacked the military strength or political unity to defeat the Portuguese. It opted to support the Portuguese colonial presence in Africa until the coup in Portugal--in large part prompted by her failing military efforts in Africa--proved them wrong...