Word: scared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Forces Party (C.F.P.), would follow up his first-place finish in last summer's preliminary balloting with a victory, the military men who have ruled Ecuador since 1972 delayed the runoff for more than six months. That allowed the conservatives who opposed Roldós to mount a scare campaign that implied his election would turn Ecuador into a Marxist state like Salvador Allende's Chile...
...belief that he has any chance today in his confrontation at number one against Princeton's Jay Lapidus, the ball-crushing seventh-ranked player in the country. The two have never played before, but Lapidus has beaten or lost narrowly to every top college player and even given a scare to some top pros...
...Tigers have beaten most of the best teams in the East. During their southern trip they breezed past Miami and ACC teams Duke and North Carolina. Navy gave the Tigers their biggest scare, taking the bottom four singles matches, but Princeton swept the doubles to come...
Princeton coach Dave Benjamin seemed thankful for the Navy scare yesterday. "Two good things happened to us this year. The Navy match shocked us out of any complacency we may have had, and Harvard beat Yale so decisively that we really have a tremendous amount of motivation. We're higher for this match than for any league match this year, and maybe for any match all year...
...until the 11th inning of Saturday's doubleheader opener here, it was anything but the annual chuckle-and-rout affair versus the Hanoverians. Fortunately, it turned out only to be a heart-stopping scare for Harvard, as the batsmen came up with a critical sweep over the Big Green...