Word: winning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...although the Crimson played an impressive first-of-the-season game and came on very strong during the third period, they could not catch up with the B.U. skaters as the Terriers held on to a 4-1 second-period lead to win...
Prime Minister Masayoshi Ohira provoked this Circus Maximus by taking a gamble--one most observers thought he would win easily. He dissolved Japan's parliament, the Diet, in September, and called for a new election less than a year after his surprise victory in the last party election. Nothing recent conservative gains in local elections, Ohira saw a chance to buttress his own power with a big victory for the conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which in recent years has lost the Diet majority it had maintained through the last three decades. Ohira stumped for a tax hike to combat...
Fritz Campbell, the talented freshman from Montana, posted three straight wins last night to earn himself a crack at the winners semifinals against St. Lawrence's Barone, the number-one seeded 134-pounder who pinned all preliminary opposition. Campbell's final win of the evening looked like an exhibition on takedowns. He allowed Barone to escape time after time and then leveled him moments later for a 10-5 win...
Crimson coach Stephanie Walsh later said "terrible relay starts" ultimately denied Harvard the win. She added, however, that her co-captain's impressive splits in the final relay signalled that "Fayer has finally returned." She missed all of last season with a separated shoulder...
...leaders were split--some wanted to beat the Viet Cong lest Communism ravage Southeast Asia and subvert the American ideal of global democracy, while others condemned the war as a futile waste of lives, energy, and national resources. No national policy emerged: we neither fought the war to win not to get out quickly. Instead we let the war drain American lives and national spirit for 12 dreadful years...