Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Penn women, however, were not about to take defeat floating on their backs. Costin remarked that a local newspaper quoted a group of Penn swimmers labelling the Harvard most "the biggest of the season...
...Easterns will give the Crimson a chance to avenge its embarrassing defeat in Philadelphia...
...Bulldogs will-be trying to avenge the 7-0 defeat they suffered at the hands of the Crimson just over two weeks ago at the Howe Cup Tournament, which Harvard took to claim the national team championship...
...million in drug money through Miami banks. In an effort to stop such large-scale manipulations, a task force of U.S. Customs and Internal Revenue Service agents has, since 1980, been auditing all financial transactions larger than $10,000. But still the traffickers outfox them. One way to defeat the audit: part-timers, from college students to grandmothers, are hired to drive around the country changing the cocaine producers' cash into cashiers' checks worth slightly less than...
Hastings might have found correspondences between Eliot's poetry and his frustrating family life. Or he might have had some fun and written a wicked expose. He has instead composed a dirge to incompatibility, which, because it raises expectations only to defeat them, leaves a taste of exhumed ashes...