Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...appropriate epithet, because despite the crew's rude antics, they rowed smoothly enough to defeat the Washington Huskies, who had been considered Harvard's toughest opponent...
...CAMPUS groups manage to defeat their own causes more spectacularly than the Harvard-Radcliffe Conservative Club...
...stickwomen sported unhappy faces yesterday as they trudged off Toton Field and away from a 3-1 defeat at the hands--or, rather, the sticks--of an awesome UMass squad...
...think that Giuliani is preparing a political career in the tradition of onetime New York Prosecutor Thomas Dewey, who rose to fame in New York in the 1930s by winning convictions against such famous criminals as Louis Lepke and Lucky Luciano. Giuliani insists that his goal is simply to defeat the mob. Indeed, only the defendants' attorneys have suggested that the indictments are not legitimate. But the prosecutor's reputation is also on trial in Foley Square. After months of headlines, he and his deputies must now persuade juries to put the Mafia behind bars...
Johnson, who holds degrees in both law and medicine, is ambiguous on the issue of independence. His election was a defeat for hard-line P.Q. separatists. Only one out of six Quebecers, according to a Gallup poll released last week, still favors secession. But his victory may prove short- lived. Quebec's Liberals, led by former Provincial Premier Robert Bourassa, 52, had already whittled the P.Q. majority in the national assembly, the provincial parliament, down to two votes. But in addition to resigning the premiership, Levesque also gave up his national assembly seat. His departure last week...