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Word: spoiler (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...home crowd went bananas midway through the final period when RPI jumped into a 7-6 lead, but Marc Hetnik evened it at seven before Meagher pumped in the spoiler...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: B.U. Survives RPI Scare, 8-7; Yale Knocks Off Eagles, 10-7 | 1/25/1978 | See Source »

...Coffey was the spoiler at the Baker Field finale, galavanting eight yards for the winning score...

Author: By Jonathan J. Ledecky, | Title: Yale, Dartmouth Share Top Spot | 10/31/1977 | See Source »

...freshman Eric Formm, reputed to be the best racquetman at that school since the halcyon days of current pro Henry Bunis (brother of Harvard's Al) and Vitas Gerulaitis. With losses to Princeton and Navy, Columbia has little chance to win the league crown, but it could play the spoiler role against the Crimson, as it did last year...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Racquetmen Make or Break Season This Weekend | 4/22/1977 | See Source »

...with our country. To me, McCarthy was some crazy clown who was to the liberals what Harold Stassen was to the conservatives. I figured that McCarthy was running because he enjoyed the attention and had nothing else better to do at the time. To me he was an egotistical spoiler...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: Eugene McCarthy: Carrying the Crusade To Harvard College | 3/23/1977 | See Source »

While the former is entirely possible, the latter is as likely as recognizing the slide identifications in the Fine Arts 13 hourly, and as a result, the Crimson's role has basically been reduced to that of a spoiler...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Pennsylvania Turnovers Recharge Crimson, 20-8 | 11/8/1976 | See Source »

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