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...nosed and tough,” Pusar said. “[The Palestra] is a fun place to play. It’s got a lot of history. We just want to take that energy and use it to become an extremely competitive team. We want to outwork them, outfight them...

Author: By Kevin C. Reyes, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Killer P’s Up Next for Harvard | 1/31/2008 | See Source »

...BIGGEST ROUNDUP SINCE 1984 AND SIGnaled an important new strategy after decades of fruitless efforts to outfight the Mafia conventionally. Using evidence supplied by the crime syndicate's own members, Italian police arrested 90 suspected members of the Sicilian Mob. Three members of Italy's Parliament and several small-town mayors were among those nabbed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Silence Is Not Golden | 11/30/1992 | See Source »

...control events, merely to help return the country to a more normal situation. Otherwise, they see in the long run the growing political and economic instability precipitating a violent leftist insurgency or a succession of military coup d'etats. Both clergy and anti-government people agree, the outfight agitations of the liberals and Sin's cautious campaigning do not raise questions of an improper mixing of church and state, or even of meddling in politics. As one opposition politician said, "All politics ended in 1972. This is a moral issue...

Author: By Michael Kendall, | Title: Marcos's Sin and the Papal Tour | 1/31/1980 | See Source »

PISTOLS 'N' PETTICOATS (CBS, 8:30-9 p.m.). Ann Sheridan stars as Hank Hawks in a new comedy western series about a modern Annie Oakley who can outfight, outshoot and outwit any man west of the Mississippi. Premiere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Sep. 16, 1966 | 9/16/1966 | See Source »

...Davenant's will to die often seems stronger than his will to live, and more than once, suicide seems preferable to treatment. What makes life tolerable is his love affair with a girl patient, whose courage surpasses his; her simple presence makes it seem necessary to outwit and outfight the disease. For the first time in his life, he knows love, but he knows it only because it is framed in suffering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tragic Mountain | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

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