Word: hard-fought
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...Crimson hockey team opened its 964-65 season with a hard-fought, 3-1 loss to the St. Nicholas Hockey Club at Watson Rink Saturday night. Despite the defeat, the season is still much too young for the pundits to forget about the Crimson skaters...
Penn, beaten by Harvard 5-2 a week ago, beat Yale 2-1 in a hard-fought defensive battle. It was the first win of the league season for the Quakers, who have also registered two ties...
...Macapagal's nation, after 18 years of independence, is an odd admixture of Spanish and American cultures. Crew-cut kids in pastel hot-rods drag for beers along Manila's broad, sleepy Roxas Boulevard. In the back streets, men smoking fat, green cigars bet on cockfights and hard-fought jai alai matches. One church has "Ave Maria" picked out in electric lights above the door. Manila's eleven daily newspapers (six in English) crackle with scare headlines reporting the latest murders, rapes and pirate raids (which still occur at a rate of one a week, conducted...
With the publication of the absorbing, fact-filled Warren Commission report, the U.S. this week harked back to the still vivid day last November when John F. Kennedy was assassinated. In a campaign year, the mood also stirred memories of the hard-fought 1960 election that sent Jack Kennedy to the White House. It was a vigorous, meaningful campaign that year; not merely for the famous television debates, but for hard questions asked and swiftly answered, issues clearly staked out and hotly debated, position papers, policy speeches, and an intellectual challenge in almost every accusation...
...extremely hard-fought race, the Engineers caught the Crimson in the last few strokes to win by three feet. Dartmouth was third, two lengths behind. Despite the loss, the time of the race, 6:39, was one of the fastest ever rowed on the Charles...