Word: defeats
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Should Harvard defeat the Spartans in the two-game, total-goals series, it would face Minnesota in the NCAA quarterfinals a week from Friday in Minneapolis, Minn. Minnesota, the number-one seed in the Western bracket of the tournament, earned a first-round bye in the tournament...
...officers tried to stem the retreat. That view, argues Blair, is inaccurate and blatantly racist. It arose, he suggests, from disgruntled and sometimes incompetent white officers, and was uncritically absorbed by Army historians. For example, Blair cites the scathing official account of the all-black 24th Infantry Regiment's defeat at Battle Mountain in August 1950. Several white regiments, he asserts, fared equally poorly in early battles but are not denigrated in official histories. Such prejudice, Blair says, is unworthy of the government...
Meanwhile, in Washington the House voted 216 to 208 to kill $30.5 million in humanitarian assistance for the contras. The package, designed by Democratic House Speaker Jim Wright to replace a military aid request that he had helped defeat last month, was voted down by a strange-bedfellows' alliance of liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans. Ronald Reagan, who opposed the Wright proposal as too weak, indicated that he will continue to press for military help...
Edge, who finished as the nation's number-one amateur player, crushed her competition, beating three of her five opponents by 3-0 scores and the other two by 3-1 scores. To win the title, Edge had to defeat her chief nemesis for the last three years, Princeton's Demer Holleran...
...didn't sleep through the English 10 lecture on Restoration comedies, you may remember that William Congreve was a successful and respected playwright until his play The Way of the World failed miserably, and he retired from the stage in shame and defeat. If you watch the North House production of World, you will understand...