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Word: loses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Clenching his first and muttering and screaming instructions to himself after every point. Walker refused to lose another game. When Walker ran to the net to hit the final volley that clinched the set he had captured his fifth straight game and the match...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Netmen Destroy Bruins, 8-1 | 4/28/1979 | See Source »

...little, you lose a little. The drive to end University investment in South Africa and to strengthen the Afro-American Studies Department received a morale boost and lots of free publicity from Monday's boycott of classes, but the gains were costly--the boycott alienated some students, and the protest apparently had little effect on University policy...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Snakes and Ladders | 4/28/1979 | See Source »

...liberals as well as conservatives, the events of April exposed a disturbing irrationality. But where liberals differ from conservatives is their conviction that the Faculty and administration behaved as badly as the students. "What was most striking was the ease with which academics, who are supposed to be rational, lose perspective. They behaved like people--no better perspective or relativity than anybody else," Hoffmann says. And he adds that some of this instinctive fear, a gut-level memory of 1969, persists in Faculty attitudes toward student activism. "If the South Africa issue mushroomed--though I don't think it would...

Author: By Susan D. Chira, | Title: On the Left | 4/26/1979 | See Source »

...puts a lot of pressure on us," captain Larry Brown said after the twinbill. "We can't lose anymore...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Lions Stun Batsmen, 5-0, 12-6 | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

Goalie Charlotte Worsley did not get much business at her end of the field, but the capable freshman rose to the occasion when the Bruins attempted their shots. Worsley picked off four shots, all of which were fired in by players who managed--in a rare moment--to lose the Crimson defense...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stickwomen Burn Brown As Worsley Gets Shutout | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

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