Word: defeated
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...post-season—is the sort of quirk that many pick up in their college years and come to regret passionately upon graduation. But unlike a gauche tattoo or a heroin habit, Sox support can be tucked under the rug easily right now, before the shame of defeat strikes its certain blow. There’s still time not to be a loser...
...pretty good idea that we were the team to beat coming in, so it’s not too surprising that we were able to defeat all of our opponents pretty convincingly,” co-captain David Lingman said...
...honest, I thought we played well...not great, but well enough to win,” Riddell said. “We need to work a little bit harder, and we’ll be able to defeat anyone. There was somewhat of an emotional letdown in the final. Our intensity level was at about 80 percent. We’ve qualified for National Indoors, and if we play this way we won’t get much accomplished...
...Haiti; it paralyzed him into inaction on the Rwandan genocide; it muddled his response to ethnic cleansing in Bosnia; it influenced his appeasement of the murderous Foday Sankoh in Sierra Leone; and it dissuaded him from pursuing a “boots on the ground” strategy to defeat Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda. In short, the specter of Somalia ultimately ruined Bill Clinton’s foreign policy...
...arguable penalty seemed to take the momentum away from Harvard, which had beaten Duke 3-2 and suffered a hard-fought 1-0 defeat to No. 5 North Carolina last weekend...