Word: outfought
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...first international fencing match ever held at Harvard, the Crimson varsity swordsmen outfought their opponents from Britain's Sandhurst military academy by a score of 14-13 last night...
...never fell on Billy Cleary's speed skaters, and after the final buzzer sounded Saturday night in Watson Rink Harvard had outscored its two upstate New York opponents 18-6 in two victories to boost the team's record to 10-0 in the Eastern league. The Crimson squad outfought Cornell, 4-2, Friday night and routed Colgate...
...style guerrilla warfare. This posthumous collection of his last writings carries forward but adds little to arguments that he expounded tirelessly in Viet Nam during frequent trips into battle. He stresses the war's political nature. "When a country is being subverted," he warns, "it is not being outfought; it is being outadministered." And he ridicules ideas that Viet Cong guerrillas could be bought off with a massive infusion of material aid. "One can't fight a militant doctrine with better privies," he writes. Fall's perceptions of men at war permeate his last articles...
...Arab reaction was immediate and violent. Charging that the Jew had usurped Arab land, the combined armies of Egypt, Transjordan, Iraq, Lebanon and Syria marched on Israel the following day and bombers attacked Tel Aviv. The Arabs were roundly drubbed. Outnumbered at first by 20 to 1, Israeli soldiers outfought, outmaneuvered and outgunned the Arabs, who were finally forced to ask for a cease-fire after eight months of fighting. But although they put down their guns, the Arabs still refused to recognize the existence of Israel. Their pride was stung, and they swore vengeance. During the war, moreover...
...Miami's Willie Pastrano, 29: an 11th-round TKO victory over Britain's surprisingly tough Terry Downes, in a light-heavyweight championship bout at Manchester, England. Bewildered by the determined, bull-like charges of the challenger (who works as a bookmaker when he is not fighting), outfought for ten rounds, Champion Pastrano came out swinging in the 11th, decked Downes twice before Referee Andy Smyth stopped the bout...