Word: margin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...finals, it was the U.S. against Yugoslavia again, and at halftime the Americans led by the slender margin of three points, 32-29. Then they cut loose. With young Haywood playing like a dervish, popping in baskets and blocking shots, the U.S. put the game out of reach. By a score of 65-50, the team that was thought to be the weakest the U.S. had ever fielded won America's seventh straight gold medal in Olympic basketball...
Sophomore Tom Spengler, moving strongly over the last two miles, out-galloped Hoss to the wire for third place, finishing with a three-second margin in 22:40. Close behind the B.U. captain was Harvard senior Tim McLoone, McLoone, reestablishing himself as a contender for a slot in the Crimson top five, was never out of contact with Colburn, Spengler, and Hoss and finished strongly in his best race to date...
Despite the absence of Royce Shaw, Doug Hardin, and Jon Enscoe--all resting for Friday's Big Three Meet--the Crimson harriers swept four of the first five medals to outdistance second-place Northeastern by a margin of 20-61. M.I.T. was a distant third with 87 points, followed by B.U., B.C., Tufts and Brandeis...
...Council action, initiated by Alan M. Zaslavsky '69, carried by a clear-cut 9-1 margin...
Nixon's "probable victory," he wrote, "is likely to sweep into office many Congressmen and some Senators far to his own right... The greater the margin of Humphrey's defeat, the more the right will feel...