Word: champ
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...Waldo Von Erich, the all-German Champ, who parades around matches in Buffalo, his home-away-from-home, in full Nazi regalia, including hobnailed boots, Iron Cross medallion, World War II helmet, and leather whip. He has developed a hold which translates into English as "The Claw." When applied to the soft underbelly of the soft underbelly of an inexperienced grappler, von Erich's steel hard grip can gouge through ordinary flesh and grasp ever-so vital internal organs. Von Erich is equipped with a device which was developed late in the War--a sort of belt which wraps around...
...pair of 8-oz. gloves and a terrycloth robe will join historical memorabilia like Babe Ruth's bat and Eli Whitney's cotton gin on display at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. "It's a great museum with its little cars and trains," observed the champ, who took time out in the capital to mug with a statue of Washington. "My gloves may be more popular," Ali added, referring to the mitts that in 1974 beat George Foreman in Zaire, "but the cotton gin did more for mankind...
...several things have come along to smash that old conception--Kissinger for one. When he rose to power, after he became the long-distance thesis champ at Harvard, the word went out, at least in the social sciences: more is better. So, as an indirect result of his compulsion, seniors now often pick a length and try to fill it rather than pick an argument and write to an appropriate length. A trained scholar would, of course, recognize this approach as bogus for the purposes of good writing, although a goodly number of them seem intent on doing it themselves...
Barnaby's teams have won this tournament 10 times, including a year ago, but this time around, despite the fact that Harvard has already been crowned national champ, the Crimson is not a clear-cut favorite, due partly to the fact that Peter Havens, the number four player, has called it quits for the season due to an ankle injury...
Died. Hans Richter, 87, painter, film maker and one of the originators of the Dada movement in art; in Locarno, Switzerland. While many of Richter's revolutionary friends, such as Painters Max Ernst and Marcel Du-champ and Sculptor Hans Arp settled into more traditional art forms, Richter gave up his easel for Dadaist and Surrealist film making. He made his first film, Rhythm 21, in 1921 and his best, Dreams That Money Can Buy, in 1947. In 1941 Richter fled Nazi Germany and came to New York, where he taught cinema for many years. In 1965 he published...