Word: defeating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...traveling about one's country one encounters some of the more extreme manifestations of the American peace cult, which is so hung up on the issue of Vietnam that many of its spokesmen will frankly admit they were hoping for a sound U.S. defeat or disaster in Southeast Asia...
Harvard must defeat Yale to maintain a mathematical chance of sharing the conference title with Penn and Princeton. Penn clinched at least a tie for the title when it whitewashed Cornell, 9-0, last Saturday. Like Harvard, Princeton must triumph in its final two league contests if it hopes to catch the high-flying Quakers...
Teaming together at number two doubles, Gonzales and Parrot found the competition a bit more challenging. They needed three sets to defeat their persistent midshipmen opponents...
Harvard's win over the midshipmen was marred by Rocky Jarvis' first singles defeat of the year. Jarvis finally fell, 2-6, 6-1, 6-3, to Dave Beard, Navy's number two player. After breezing through the first set, Jarvis appeared to lose his concentration. He had trouble controlling Beard's hopping serve and committed costly errors from the baseline...
John Levin, plagued by a lingering virus, lost, 10-8, 6-1, to Navy's Bob Cowen for Harvard's only other singles defeat. Levin struggled to hold service throughout the first set. With the score at 8-9, he fell behind, 40-0, and could not recover. Cowen, then coasted to an easy two-set triumph...