Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were not the adversaries, then distance, time, disease, weather, Indians and ignorance were. It took a week to get to New York City. Early death stalked almost everyone. Washington was remarkably durable for his time-and lucky. His horses and uniforms were riddled with bullets at Braddock's defeat in the French and Indian War. He was untouched. But even his luck ran out finally. He died at 67 of a throat inflammation. A young physician in attendance wanted to open the trachea but was overruled by his seniors, still fearful of the new technique. A sturdy figure like...
...interned by the U.S. Army on war crime charges. What happened after that remains somewhat controversial to this day. According to France's renowned war criminal experts, Serge and Beate Klarsfeld, American intelligence agents secretly recruited Barbie to conduct spying missions in eastern Germany immediately following Hitler's defeat. Barbie supposedly helped gather information on Soviet troop positions as well as on the whereabouts of other Gestapo fugitives wanted by Allied authorities; in return he was given a false identity, a home in Munich and the opportunity to get out of Germany while the Americans played dumb and refused French...
...truck sales. From the point of view of the American Trucking Association (ATA)--the industry's major voice in Washington--it looked like a rather unpleasant bill of goods. Not being the kind of group to throw in the towel without a substantial show of muscle, the ATA conceded defeat only after wringing a very substantial concession from an overtired Congress...
...price of defeat, which may in the long run outweigh the benefit of the tax, was the final removal of what have long been thorns in the industry's side--the size and weight restrictions on the interstate highway system. In 1956, Congress limited combined tractor and trailer weights to 73.280 lbs, and widths to 96 inches. Given that the average interstate is designed for weights of 60,000 lbs., the limit erred on the side of generosity--generosity doubtless matching the largesse of the industry lobbyists...
...defeat leaves the Crimson in second place in the Ivy League with a 3-1 record, 14-6 4-1 overall. As Lee said, "Cornell should visit the League now, but plenty of things could still happens...