Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...normal meal without feeling compelled to purge her body immediately afterwards. "There are some mornings when I am lying in bed and I just don't want to get up because I know my eating will be out of control," she says regretfully. "I'll concede defeat at eight O'clock in the morning and think, 'I am a failure for today...
...wasn't always that easy. Believe it or not, an upstart Bates squad dealt Harvard a 53-52 defeat last season when the Bobcats jumped out to a 21-1 lead and held on for the upset...
Crimson coach Frank McLaughlin--who, in spite of a ruptured disc in his back, gyrated impressively along the sideline all game--was dissatisfied with the defeat but not overly critical of his squad. "I think other teams have been playing well against us," McLaughlin said, nothing that the Minutemen shot 57 per cent against Crimson defense. "Each game we're improving on certain phases. It's a tough thing, as a coach you want to say we're playing badly and losing...
...Harvard zone with an 18-ft. jumper, two missed foul shots by Fleming and a three-point play by Minutemen forward Horace Neysmith put UMass up by four, 70-66, with two minutes to go. A late Harvard surge fell short, and the Crimson suffered its fourth straight defeat...
...stop after he retrieved the title from George Foreman in 1974. Whether punishing Floyd Patterson or taunting Ernie Terrell, Ali was never so cruel to anyone as he was to Frazier, whom he termed "ignorant." Frazier simply offended him aesthetically. It required all of Ali's art to defeat a man with no art of his own, and that galled "the Greatest...