Word: champion
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Luther was not only a Christian liberator, but a champion of the peasants of his day. On one occasion Luther, son of a peasant, reprimanded the princes, cried: "Men will not and cannot tolerate your arrogance any longer! God will not have it. Times are past when you drove and hunted men like beasts...
...making of Rocky. He pulled it out of center field last March, knocked his opponent groggy. The confidence gained from that wallop gave him the same killer instinct that made Stanley Ketchel famous. He promptly made bells ring in the noggins of the late Bummy Davis, fading Welterweight Champion Red Cochrane, drew $100,000 gates...
Adequate Incentive. Now, Al Browning hopes to perform another minor miracle in Wallace's bailiwick; he expects to make it the two-fisted champion of business in the Administration. He has promised to stay only three months, will probably stay longer if Wallace lives up to his promise to give him a free hand. What he hopes to drive home is that business must have "adequate incentive" to supply the jobs for full employment, i.e., taxes should be further reduced, plant amortization regulations liberalized, etc. He summed up his new job: "Our purpose is to stimulate, not just...
...companions in this minor misery, the President has Adviser George Allen (219 Ibs.) and Military Aide Harry H. Vaughan (228 Ibs.) Heavyweights Allen and Vaughan began their own reducing race Jan. 1, will end it on Valentine's Day, with the champion receiving $1 for every pound of his winning margin. Their referee is Harry Truman, whom they call their "fact-finding committee." The President was mercifully excused from the race, it was explained, because "he didn't have the ammunition"-i.e., pounds...
Testaments of Youth Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, 76, philosophic champion of self-discipline and nonviolence, got fed up with the violently undisciplined enthusiasm of his Indian followers: it kept him awake. On a tour through India they cheered him at every train stop. Cried he: "I cannot repeat this performance for many days, and hope to live to the age of 125"-the age he thought he might reach before he saw "the consummation of my ideas." Observed the ascetic, sleepless, not unhumorous Mahatma: "To inculcate perfect discipline and non-violence among 400 million is no joke...