Word: defeated
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Harvard coach Branmir Zivkovic also blamed the officiating for the defeat. "The team knows what happened--they didn't lose to the fencers, they lost to the officials," he said...
Crimson coach Billy Cleary blamed the defeat on inexperience and "a lack of discipline--that's hitting it on the nutshell...
...fact, the schedule itself may yet defeat the cagers. Because of what Kleinfelder called a "communication problem" between the EAIAW and the Ivy League, the two organizations' end-of-season tournaments are slated for the same weekend in February...
...Edward Heath. Carrington, who was also chairman of the Conservative Party at that time, earned the nickname of "Superhawk" by urging Heath to take a strong stand against the striking unions. It proved to be a disastrous strategy and helped pave the way for the Tories' 1974 electoral defeat. But the experience taught him some valuable political lessons in moderation and pragmatism...
Perhaps because his thoughts dwelled so much on the West Bank last week, Begin seemed strangely impervious to his coalition's defeat in the Knesset over an amendment to the country's abortion law. Agudat Israel, an orthodox religious party, had joined the Begin bloc in exchange for the Premier's support of its campaign to limit abortions. A motion to tighten the country's laws on the matter was defeated in a tie vote, 54-54, when four members of Begin's own Likud Party voted against it. Agudat Israel huffed that its four...