Word: gain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sports are like women. Just when you think you're in shape for a big conquest, something goes wrong and you lose the struggle; maybe lose your pride, and gain a bit more experience, though less than you'd hoped for. But when you do win, it's so good that all your past heartbreaks don't seem so important. You've got what you've been sweating for; you're the champ...
...boycott, organized by the Black Student Alliance, followed a rally in which BSA leaders charged Yale with discrimination against black students and failing to exert the political force necessairy to gain jobs for New Haven blacks...
...often happens, the key to a compromise may lie with the Soviets, whose position is not yet totally clear. Moscow has a few choices. By joining the boycott, the Kremlin would improve relations with black Africa, gaining ground on Communist China, which can't compete anyway. On the other hand, Moscow could use its influence to torpedo the boycott, hoping to gain more from the prestige of Olympic victories than from the benefits of the boycott. As a third possibility, and not completely out of character, the Soviets could strike a compromise by continuing their denunciation of the South Africans...
Cornell's powerhouse hockey team scored three goals in the second period, Saturday night, to gain a 6-3 decision over...
...frock. What does she feel before that inscrutable child? Envy for times past, fear for the child's future indifference before accusation, shame? Nothing so simple. In that transcendent silence, white spheres of guilt and innocence flash and tumble, collide and fuse. Souls changes places, lose and gain whole years. Nobody moves...