Word: defeating
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Army swept the hurdles and the broad jump from the Crimson last Saturday. Those losses were the key to Harvard's defeat, according to McCurdy...
...Crimson looked sharp at West Point, even in defeat, and B.U. is a perennial patsy. Harvard squashed them 84-20, last year...
...failure to secure a formal resolution in support of the plan must be counted as a trifling defeat for the partisans of a volunteer army led by Milton Friedman, professor of Economics at the University of Chicago, and Rep. Donald Rumsfeld (R-III.). In four days of lobbying within the conference hall and without, the group convinced many delegates that at the very least, military salaries should be raised to see if the enlistment rate would rise...
...best reflects the more moderate trends in the electorate is William S. Spong, Jr., of Portsmouth, who knocked off Robertson in the Democratic primary (by 611 votes), and went on to defeat his Goldwater-Republican opponent in the November election by almost two-to-one. In what the press labeled "The Big Race," Spong outran his running-mate Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr., by 56,000 votes. It was a striking display of how far Virginia has come in the past few years...
...Drang became "the Valley of Death"-though the battle was on a far smaller scale. Lured into an ambush when they pursued a small group of Communist troops that they had sighted, two platoons of the 1st Cavalry (Airmobile), the division that inflicted last year's la Drang defeat on the Communists, were heavily outnumbered and badly mauled by the "gooks"-as the Air Cav has taken to calling the North Vietnamese to distinguish them from the Viet Cong...