Word: defeats
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...other players, however, Harvard-Yale memories are not so glorious. Robert Drennan '46, like Clasby, says he will always remember the Game his senior year. "It was the worst defeat of my life," said Drennan of the 1946 game in which the Bulldogs dumped the Harvard...
...Argentina is burdened with nearly 1,000% inflation, an unemployment rate of 15% and a $40 billion foreign debt, the world's third largest (after Brazil's $94 billion and Mexico's $91 billion). Moreover, the new President must bolster a nation demoralized by its ignominious defeat in the Falklands war last year and traumatized by the "dirty war" against leftists in which more than 6,000 people disappeared in the 1970s. So pressing are the tasks facing Alfonsin that the military is expected to move up his inauguration from...
...defeat set off a fresh power struggle within the Peronist party. Several members urged that Isabel Peron, now 52 and self-exiled in Spain, return to take the party's helm. She dispatched a bizarre telegram to Alfonsin, misspelling his name and congratulating him in the name of the Peronist party, "over which I preside." Some demanded that Miguel and the other labor bosses be tossed out and the party cleansed of unsavory union influences...
...deposed in 1977 and later executed by General Ziaul-Haq, Pakistan's current President and a fraternal twin of the fictional Raza Hyder. Similarly, the bloody civil war that led to the transformation of East Pakistan into independent Bangladesh in 1971 is mirrored here: "The final defeat of the western forces, which led to the reconstitution of the East Wing nation as and an international autonomous basket (that's a case ..." laugh) But Shame is not a point-for-point alle gory of reasonably recent events...
Craig Saltzgaber booted a 32-yard field goal on the final play of the game to save the Big Green from its first league defeat of the season at East Rutherford...