Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...defeat drops Harvard's record to 3-2, while Brown remains undefeated with five wins...
...Hill the word went out from influential young Democrats, disillusioned by the massive defeat of their party, that Speaker Tip O'Neill would be little more than a ceremonial figure in the coming struggles. "His practical power days are over," said one. But the problem remains: Who leads the Democrats and where...
...inevitable defeat of Western democracy is the subject of Revel's newly translated work How Democracies Perish (Doubleday; $17.95), which sold 200,000 copies after it was first published in France last year and remained on the bestseller list for 24 weeks. Historian Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie compared the significance of Revel's warnings about the Soviet Union to the alarms sounded by Demosthenes about the perils facing Athenian democracy. U.S. neoconservatives lauded publication of a condensation in the monthly Commentary last June; U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Jeane Kirkpatrick quoted from the work in her speech...
...Crimson had to depend on strong performances from the bottom half of the ladder to defeat a strong Trinity squad that Harvard Coach Priscilla Choate described as having "tremendous depth...
...defeat ended the cagers' bid to become the first Harvard women's hoop squad since 1976 to win its first four games...