Word: defeating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard's basketball team built up a 16-point lead at halftime and they held on to defeat Brown, 74 to 65, last night in Providence...
...what is now the Communist capital, he earned an infantry commission from an officers' training school. The French plucked the cocky young lieutenant off his feet and sent him to Marrakech for flight training. He won his wings on Sept. 15, 1954-just four months after the French defeat in Indo-China. Ky came back to South Viet Nam with a French wife and the command of a transport squadron. By the time he was 25, the hard-boiled "hot rock" pilot was in charge of Saigon's sprawling Tan Son Nhut air force base. From there...
...blowing up a ferryboat. Since no movie can ultimately create real suspense about who won World War II, the only pertinent question becomes How. Tele-mark's answer is to pit Douglas and his right-makes-might pals against a Nazi elite force so inept that its final defeat looks suspiciously like a snow...
...battle between Harvard and Princeton looms in the distances and mid-distances. On present performances, Ritchie Geisel (4:11) and Rose O'Neill (4:14) give Princeton a decided advantage in the mile. They will have to be in top form, however, to defeat Harvard sophomore Jim Baker, who also is registered at 4:14. Another Crimson sophomore, Ran Langenbach, could possibly grab a fourth, but he will have to beat Princeton's Andriani...
With one match to go, Harvard now has a total of 66 points against its opponents. With two matches to go, Princeton has 53 points. Therefore, if Harvard can defeat Yale by the minimum 5-4 margin, Princeton must defeat both helpless Cornell and powerful Yale by 9-0 scores in order to equal Harvard's total point output. If Harvard defeats Yale by a 6-3 margin or worse, it's all over for Princeton...