Word: champion
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...light switch is clicked, the minds of a majority of the people would have been painfully made up, after much soul-searching-and then Tom Dewey would either quietly return to his tasks in Albany, or would have emerged as the youngest of U.S. Presidents, the new champion...
...Champion of all the dailies, "the newspaper maintaining the best all-around Washington news service as measured by reliability, comprehensiveness, fairness": the New York Times...
...influences dominated his one hobby-shooting and hunting. He became one of the crack shots of the service, captained rifle teams, became a skeet champion. On his leaves he packed off to hunt big game-caribou and moose in Canada, elephants and tigers in Indo-China...
With Nelson Potter (19-to-7) heading a rejuvenated pitching staff, the Browns had won eleven of their last twelve games. They might well prove to be tougher than the Tigers as World Series opponents of the perennial champion St. Louis Cardinals. For offsetting Detroit's Hal New-houser and his fabulous 20-to-9 pitching record was the decline of Dizzy Trout (27-14), who had lost twice in the crucial last week and seemed to be overworked. Even the Tiger slugging combination of Rudy York and Dick Wakefield might have been less effective than Luke Sewell...
Gentle, happy-go-lucky Pavot is indifferent to almost everything but food. He eats like a farm horse, but races like a champion. He is solid brown and in a race looks like fast-pouring molasses. He seems to be on springs when he jogs, hugs the ground when he runs. If he were less rangy, he would be a ringer for famed War Admiral...