Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WALTHAM--The Harvard softball team pulled out a squeaker in extra things yesterday, coming from behind to defeat Bentley, 6-4, and improve its record...
...defeat severely bruises Radcliffe's record and upsets its chances for a good seed in the Eastern Sprints...
...while, though, a film will buck the glut of exploitation movies and attract any viewer who still carries a hankie. Critic Raymond Durgnat called them "male weepies": films to make a grown man, or a baby mogul, cry. They describe a heroic life struggle that may end in defeat or death but never in ignominy. There is nothing like a fighter against the odds--a caring father (Kramer vs. Kramer), a troubled teenager (Ordinary People), a young cancer victim (Terms of Endearment) or a misunderstood songwriter (Amadeus)--to exalt ! and liquefy a theaterful of adults. Or to win the past...
...despite touching up pitch Gerri Rubin for 13 hits, Maine couldn't manage to defeat the Crimson. Rubin picked up her sixth victory of the season after a bit of a workout--she threw 98 pitches over the course of the ballgame...
...successfully defending its title, Harvard crushed Charles River opponent MIT, who had dealt the Crimson a defeat in an individual match just the previous week...