Word: defeating
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Harvard had four key opportunities to pick up the necessary points to defeat the Lions. But the Crimson was short on all four races--the 100, 200 and 500 freestyles, and the 200 breaststroke. All the events were decided by less than one second...
...more than 15,000 students in Prague last week staged the largest protest rally in two decades. "This is better than in 1969 because the atmosphere is much better," said Karel Srp, head of the dissident group Jazz Section, recalling the way an angry populace had reacted after the defeat of its brief fling with liberalization in the spring of 1968. "Now we know we can win. This is unstoppable...
...others think the idea is worth serious thought, though none believe it likely to happen while Washington still clings to the conservative catchword of deregulation. Besides, says Eugene Thaw, the doyen of U.S. private dealers, Sotheby's in particular may have enough political clout in New York to defeat a further tightening of the rules...
Unlike their male counterparts, members of the Harvard women's ice hockey team did not really expect to win their season opener last night at Bright Center. And their 5-2 defeat to Providence, a perennial powerhouse that finished second in the ECACs last season, didn't cause anyone to panic...
...lose his grip? Some say it took him months to get over the guilt of waging so flimsy a campaign. Others found confirmation of longstanding misgivings about Dukakis, the odd and uncomfortable politician so pathetically incapable of relating to others. Example: never did he speak about his presidential defeat in a personal way to Massachusetts voters who were so stirred by his candidacy. They came to resent that...