Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...previous game against Dartmouth, the Harvard women's hockey team (11-14, 5-13 ECAC) pushed its opponent to the brink of defeat before succumbing in overtime...
...People equated the defeat of Plan E with going back to the old ways," Samp says, explaining why Plan E was never abolished...
...Monday the Crimson--which entered the weekend ranked 18th in the country--was handed an 8-1 defeat by the No. 16-ranked Vanderbilt Commodores, one day after falling to the No. 20-ranked Arkansas Razorbacks by the identical score...
...Americans dispute that there is a valid case for taking out Saddam. The Iraqi leader even more than his suspected arsenal menaces his neighborhood. He has, in a galling way, been able to fashion a kind of victory out of defeat: the embargo blockading his country has enabled Saddam to blame the U.S. for his country's problems. He continues to frustrate U.N. resolutions designed to neuter his military might...
...instilled his passion in my beloved uncle. The bug seems to have skipped over my mom, but it was clear at an early age that the predilection for cards and dice had been passed on to me. In third grade I bet my teacher that Penn State would defeat Rutgers in their annual football match-up. She insisted that we play the point spread and after consulting with my father, I accepted her terms. On the fateful Saturday, the Nittany Lions made the spread and I enjoyed my first gambling profits in the form of an ice cream sundae...