Word: forfeit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson spikers were not ready to forfeit the division title. In the next two games they played steady ball, taking advantage of a weakened Springfield attack, and in the fourth game Peter Graham blocked the last of Springfield's feeble spikers...
When the Big Eight collegiate athletic conference discovered that the high school transcripts of two football players at the University of Oklahoma had been altered two years ago, the case upended big-time college football. The Sooners-one of the nation's best teams-were required to forfeit eight of their 1972 victories and the conference championship. They were also hit with two seasons of N.C.A.A. "probation," which barred Oklahoma from bowl games. The two youngsters involved, Quarterback Kerry Jackson and Center Michael Phillips, were suspended from the team for a year, even though they were cleared of complicity...
...exquisite diction of the Italian actors and the rhythm and beauty and strangeness (to the English ear) of what they are saying, this lends a theatrical, almost ritualistic quality to the film. These characters, though, are faintly ridiculous. By stepping out of the community to address us, they forfeit the strength in numbers that protects everyone else and show themselves to be somehow anti-social. One of these characters is a poet who sips Campari on the steps of the seaside Grand Hotel just outside of town, watching the Nazis make out with the local girls; another an antiquarian...
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Rounding out the Crimson's triumph, number-eight-man Tim Morgan won his first two games before his opponent, Ed Silbert, was forced to forfeit the match due to an injury...