Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unlike many towns in the U.S. similarly engaged in tilting against giants for their very lives, the people of Brumley Gap have at least got their resistance going early in the proceedings. Most of them cannot imagine defeat. Says Cletis Leonard, a tall, rawboned woman with her silver hair drawn back in a bun: "I sold three quilts at that auction down at the Coon Club last October. Made $200. Maybe I'll do even better next time around." Skinny but indomitable at 95, Floyd ("Unk") Hayter, whose wife Bess thinks the town's big mistake...
Wendy Sonnabend, in the fourth slot, absorbed the other defeat, falling in four games to Lil Doubleday...
...Crimson's only loss came at the seventh position, where John Heller suffered his first defeat of the season in a five-game heartbreaker against Eli Reed Knox. Chuck Elliot and Jeff Secrest rounded out the Crimson's victory parade with wins at five and nine respectively...
...victory Friday night at Princeton would be the first Crimson defeat of the Tigers since 1971. Harvard's 4-3 Ivy League record, bolstered by two strong performances last weekend, looks very promising in comparison with Princeton's faltering 2-5 mark...
Harvard earned its only team victory when it rolled over Brown Sunday night by a score of 41-12. Senior John Franklin notched an important win in the 150-1b. class fighting back from near defeat and pinning his opponent with just four seconds remaining in the final period...