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Word: winning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, in a highly emotional television and radio address, General Velasco virtually foreclosed any possibility of a negotiated settlement. In an obvious bid to win the support of other nationalist army officers and businessmen, Velasco asserted that I.P.C. owes Peru $690.5 million for all the oil that it has pumped from Peruvian soil. To recover at least a part of that sum, representing I.P.C.'s entire gross sales for the past 44 years, Velasco plans to auction off the company's properties within the next 40 days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peru: Challenging the U.S. | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

Harvard put on its best team perforance of the year, but without any breaks they couldn't win...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, (SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON) | Title: Columbia Defeats Hoopsters, 81-75 | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

...back to Cambridge was that this was not the real world at all. This kind of scholarship was not the truth, or the quest for the truth. It was a game which men had set up for themselves; and they had made the rules so that they would always win. One can always take a poem and analyze it. One can always trace the images of light and darkness in a novel. It is all a game--a game which we all play, with whose answers we all content ourselves--but it is not the truth...

Author: By Nicholas Gagarin, | Title: Esalen and Harvard: Looking at Life From Both Sides Now | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

...Yardling hockey team is one of the strongest ever to compete for the Crimson, having won 13 games and suffering only two losses. The team has great depth with three strong lines. The icemen combine size and skating ability with consistent team work to win their games...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swordsmen Lose; Icemen Play Here | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

...Coleman gave Harvard its first points when he subdued his Springfield opponent with an impressive 7-1 decision. Bart Harvey, a 152-pounder, followed Coleman's victory with another win by decision, making the score 14-6. Both Coleman and Harvey were wrestling unbeaten adversaries. With these unexpected wins, Harvard jumped back into contention...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wrestlers Succumb, 19-17 As Chiefs Triumph Again | 2/13/1969 | See Source »

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