Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite having to kill a penalty in the overtime. Harvard pressed and outshot Yale, 7-2. And when Sue Newell missed for the Crimson with just four seconds left, Harvard had its most frustrating tie--of defeat, if you will--of the season...
HOWEVER RISKY IT may seem, it is important not only to beat Ronald Reagan this year, but also to defeat the Democratic dead-letter, to make sure that the Democratic candidate for president represents what the country needs and demands. When a CBS/New York Times poll last week showed Rowans critical and/worried about the president's economic and foreign policies, it became clear that, in addition to Black and female anger, there was also a widespread undercurrent of doubt about the president's success. This, then, is emphatically not a year for liberals to turn inside themselves and assume that...
...resounding defeat dropped the Crimson's slate to a mediocre 3-3. Harvard never led in the important Ivy showdown, which came just three days after the squawomen took second place in the Greater Boston Championships...
Death-penalty opponents believe the race argument is the strongest one left in their arsenal. But the arsenal is dwindling. Even those who still expect the ultimate defeat of capital punishment are worried. "The Immediate future is grim," says the Rev. Joe Ingle, who leads a Southern prison-reform group. "We've got to brace ourselves for losing some folks. It's like being in a war." One loss came just three days after the court's proportionality decision. In Florida, Anthony Antone, 66, convicted of arranging the contract killing of an organized-crime investigator, was electrocuted...
Harvard controlled the game's tempo through most of the contest, but midway through the second half it looked like the Crimson was destined to swallow defeat number 17 at the hands of the Lions, who did not start their leading scorer, George Meikle, for disciplinary reasons...