Word: winningly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition, sophomore Jamie Reilly recorded 12 saves to seize the win...
...Reign: Yale (10-3, 5-1) gained sole possession for first place, when it defeated Penn, 2-1, last weekend. The victory was Yale's fifth-straight Ivy win...
...Crimson next plays in the New England Championships on Saturday. Its first match will be against the University of Connecticut, and a win would advance it to a match against Northeastern, the only league team to which the Crimson has this lost this year (13-12). A win against North-eastern will probably lead Harvard into a finals showdown with Dartmouth, the number-one ranked team in New England...
...Dear George: You win again. F.D.R." The George was George Marshall, Army Chief of Staff, and the F.D.R. was, of course, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who was congratulating him for persuading a reluctant Congress to pass a bill they both deemed essential for Allied victory in World War II. Short as it was, the President's letter summarized his admiration for the co-architect of American strategy: without Marshall in Washington, he said, he could not sleep at night. In fact, that justifiable anxiety cost Marshall the job he so greatly coveted: Supreme Commander in Europe, which went instead...
...company decided to lay down a dare. The California firm, which provides equipment to protect mainframes against interlopers, challenged U.S. computer hackers to crack its code during a weeklong contest. In messages sent to electronic bulletin boards frequently used by hackers, LeeMah promised that any successful code breaker would win a trip for two to St. Moritz or Tahiti. More than 7,000 phone calls came into LeeMah from dozens of hackers trying to beat the system, but none were able to retrieve the hidden message in the computer. The odds against them, estimated LeeMah: 720 quadrillion...