Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson squad that had been nearly flawless since a season-opening loss at Maryland had to rely on a bit more than just skill to defeat a vastly inferior--yet vastly underrated-University of Vermont squad. 7-6, Saturday at Burlington...
That fact helped Harvard's women tracksters through Saturday's winds to defeat Northeastern...
...statesman is a leader who, knowing where the true interests of the nation lie, resists counsel that .clashes with conviction. Margaret Thatcher belongs in that company. But when I say that in the Falklands, the West was given a great victory by Britain, I do not mean the defeat of Argentinian soldiers by British soldiers. British arms prevailed, but principle triumphed. The will of the West...
Zeigerman arrived in time to cast his ballot with the Likud, but Begin never emerged. As it turned out, his presence would not have helped: another Likud member defected and gave Labor its majority. Recent polls indicate that Labor, headed by Shimon Peres, would handily defeat Shamir's Likud bloc if voting were held now. When the election date is finally set, the campaign promises to be as fierce as any Israel has seen...
...stormy confirmation hearings it January 1981 until his resignation not quite 18 months later, he was almost constantly fighting, and on two fronts at once: against his colleagues in the Administration and against the Soviet Union and its clients in the Third World. In the end, Haig was defeated in the intramural struggle and frustrated in the global one. He lost Reagan's confidence and support, and he left his successor, George Shultz, with a daunting agenda of unfinished business. In the eyes of his critics, Haig's defeat was self-inflicted: the soldier in him got the better...