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Sportswriters exulted that Lewis finally got what he deserved . But skeptics said that scoring discrepancies revealed "something less than a definitive way of judging a bout."
More than three decades later I readily recall my opinions about both at the time, opinions that have changed little over the years: there was no doubt that the MWIII deserved criticism, but those benighted, self-appointed guardians of the language who were heaping vituperative imprecations on the Dictionary (and its editors) were criticizing it for the wrong things.
No one deserved to beat Armstrong this year," said the second-place cyclist, Alex Zuelle.
It is also true that while Ben's mother certainly deserved to share in his father's largess, Ben and any other siblings were merely members of the "lucky sperm club."
The view I have heard, not exactly a political program, more like an ethnic slur, is that (fill in the blank) Eastern European ethnic group deserved whatever the Soviets dished out because they were anti-Semitic Hitler-friendly thugs.