Word: gain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Five Harvard golfers failed to gain a berth in the ECAC's fall-team championship in a 21-school qualifying meet Thursday at the Woonsocket, R.I. country club course...
...officials and strengthen the power of the upper castes over the lower, and at this the government is remarkably adroit, efficient, and swift. There are very few construction projects, for example, from which officials fail to achieve their target of bribes, very few internal disturbances from which the peasants gain anything but lip sympathy from the government, very few land reform programs which leave large landowners or bureaucrats (often they are one and the same) poorer than before. Officials of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) have a hard time understanding why the poor won't come...
Operating from the Terrier 26, Kubacki hit Winn with a flare pass for a nine-yard gain. Following a penalty for delay of game, the junior then hooked up with split end Steve Saxon on the left side of the endzone for a 22-yard score...
Neal Miller shared the spotlight in the drive with Kubacki, as he busted up the middle on a quick handoff for a 40-yard gain to the Terrier 37. Kubacki then unleashed a 24-yard aerial to Saxon, who made another acrobatic grab to set the Crimson up at the 9-yard line...
...begin with, Geiger evaded the first defensive onslaught by stepping back in the passing pocket, and then romping through the line for a 20-yard gain...