Word: also-rans
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...Patterns) Serling's play Requiem for a Heavyweight was a taut, discerning glimpse into the shabby world of prizefighting. The plot dealt with an also-ran pug (Jack Palance) who is put out to pasture after in bone-bruising bouts, and finds it jarringly hard to adjust. He is a tough, disfigured blob of flesh who "could take a cannon ball in the face"; but he is also a gentle man, painfully aware of his ugliness. He is bounced around by some seedy managers and hangers-on ("Why is it," asks Trainer Ed Wynn, playing his first straight part...
...with turning a quick profit. As a result, the industry is shackled by incompetent, underpaid employees, overlapping programs and antiquated factories that look like "back-alley garages" beside U.S. aircraft plants. Said Pilot Waterton: "We have tried to muddle through by guess and by God. Britain [is] almost an also-ran in the aircraft stakes...
...victory for Incumbent LeRoy Collins. Even more, it can be traced to the fact that Floridians, basking in the warmth of their economic boom, seem in no mood for a change: they still like Ike and tend to see the Democratic nominee, whoever he may be, as an inevitable also-ran...
Cornell will pose the chief threat to the varsity's undefeated string, while Penn figures to be an also-ran. In the indoor Heptagonal meet, which the Crimson won, Cornell came in three points behind, while Penn ran a poor seventh in the nineteam meet...
...beat of Adolphe Adam's If I Were King, her near-flawless execution brought the chilled crowd to its feet. Even one of the judges broke into spontaneous applause. When the scores were announced, the 16-year-old trouper, after a long year of competition as an also-ran, was the world champion. "Mother," she cried...