Word: defeating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...number one singles match, Andover's Paul Brown overcame a brilliant early performance by Jaime Gonzales to defeat the Harvard freshman...
...number two and three matches, both Harvard players breezed past their opponents. Sophomore Larry Terrell used his longer reach to defeat Cornell's short captain, Bruce Mesches, 15-8, 15-3, 15-4. Husky Jose Gonzalez, showing unexpected agility for his size, ran Mark Taylor all over the court enroute to beating...
Meanwhile he is increasingly busy at home. He is pushing a juvenile-delinquency bill, is fighting to keep this year's civil rights bill alive, and is again colliding with his seniors in his attempt to strip the Administration's crime-prevention bill of amendments which, he feels, would defeat the measure...
...their judgment with ballots, the by-election voters of West Derbyshire more than doubled the Tory majority and dropped the Laborite candidate into third place behind the Liberal Party man. "It was a setback," Wilson said of devaluation on a TV panel. "The chancellor said that it was a defeat. The last two weeks for him and for me, and for a number of others, have been hell...
...speaks of sacrfiice and example, seems a kind of temple to youth, manhood, generosity. The simple emotion of the old fighting-time came back to him, and the monument around him seemed an embodiment of that memory; it arched over friends as well as enemies, the victims of defeat as well as the sons of triumph...