Word: defeating
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...treaty. But last week that balance was in danger of being tipped. In eastern Laos the Communists were creating a major staging area for an attack across the border at U.S. Marine positions south of the DMZ. In northern Laos, North Vietnamese and Pathet Lao soldiers inflicted a major defeat on Royal Laotian forces, overrunning the strategic valley...
Real Hard Look. The Raiders took their defeat-and their $7,500 perman loser's share-gracefully. Said Quarterback Lamonica: "It was a day of learning." The Packers, richer by $15,000 a man, were already thinking about the future. Talk had it that several oldtimers would retire, among them Flanker McGee, a star for twelve years. But the biggest conjecture of all concerned Coach Lombardi, who in nine years has turned the Packers from the patsies of the N.F.L. into the most successful team in pro football history. One report had Lombardi giving up coaching but retaining...
...premature publication of the Versailles Treaty in 1919 was one of the greatest scoops in the history of journalism, and more important: it resulted in the defeat of President Wilson's plans and "broke his heart." However, credit for this scoop should go to Spearman Lewis, managing editor of the Paris edition of the Chicago Tribune, and not to my close and dear friend, Frazier Hunt, who died recently [Jan. 5]. Hunt was asked by Lewis to take the treaty to Chicago, and Hunt smuggled it through customs. Lewis negotiated for weeks to get the treaty, and pledged...
Baker set his own N.U. cage mark in the 1000 to keep up his break-a-record-a-meet pace. The wiry cross country captain sped around the track in 2:15.0 to defeat N.U.'s Jan Castanza and teammate Trey Burns...
Coach George Harrington's freshman team demonstrated a balanced scoring attack in posting their fifth win of the season against only one defeat (to Boston College...