Word: victors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would be dangerous, however, to dismiss the words of this self-proclaimed lightweight too quickly. He understands small not physically, but in the sense of an underdog, an unlikely victor. This he certainly was--the Las Vegas bookies considered him such a longshot that they wouldn't even set odds on the match...
...expression of the party-and-state system of power." The proposed arithmetic had its critics, most notably Ambassador to Poland Vladimir Brovikov, who sarcastically wondered whether "democracy within the party will decline if there are 500 people in the hall instead of the 200 suggested in the document." But Victor Lomin, one of the visiting miners invited to the meeting by Gorbachev, took a different view of the Central Committee: "My first impression was that I was in an old people's home. I think these people can decide absolutely nothing...
...local time on Sunday, Feb. 11, Nelson Mandela walked out of the Victor Verster Prison Farm near Cape Town -- free at last. It was, said an announcer for the official South African Broadcasting Corp., "the moment that a majority of South Africans, and the world, have been waiting...
...other division of the Howe Cup, Brown finished first in Division II, Smith nabbed the Divsion III title, and Colby emerged the victor in Division...
...Crimson (10-10 overall, 5-3 Ivy) kept pace with Brown and Yale--all three won Saturday night to remain one game behind league-leader Princeton, a 66-28 victor over Dartmouth. Penn (9-11, 4-4) needs a miracle to earn the automatic NCAA berth...