Word: champion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vision of the future: an all-embracing system of world security resting on the support of all states, large and small. In pledging Canada to such an ideal, and placing that ideal ahead of Canada's obligations to the Commonwealth, Mr. King set his Dominion out as the champion of small states and against a world dominated by a few great powers...
Sophocles, 49-year-old second son of the late, great Eleutherios Venizelos, is a veteran of Grecian wars with Bulgaria and Turkey, a onetime bridge champion, a declared opponent of the Greek monarchy, who nevertheless joined the Greek Cabinet in Cairo last year...
...write or say the type of mentality which has been attracted to Quisling in Occupied Norway. . . . The rubbery highflying fantasy of the tale ... is reminiscent of another "classic" in the history of Norwegian letters. I refer to the "novel" that came from the pen of Charles Hoff, onetime world champion pole vaulter, shortly after he returned to Norway after his escapades in America. Hoff's story ended with an earthquake destroying Manhattan, and with the poor but honest hero marrying the multimillionaire's daughter. Yes, you guessed it. Hoff is also one of Quisling's few henchmen...
...Champion's Champion. Roy Brown's greatest moment came in the early morning of April 21, 1918. He had been in almost daily aerial combat on the western front for 14 months. His nerves were dangerously taut. Said he: "Milk and brandy were my only food [for two weeks]. ..." That morning he swooped unseen behind an Albatross, bagged the famed, ferocious Red Knight of Germany, Baron Manfred von Richthofen...
...Amber Charles Davidson, 17, a stocky, curly-haired Mormon farm boy of Fort Bridger, Wyo. Besides running his father's farm (his father runs a garage), Amber paints, plays the cornet, is light-heavyweight boxing champion of Bridger Valley, captained his high-school (Lyman Seminary) football team. A self-taught scientist, he began to put motors together at six, now has a departmentalized one-man laboratory with separate booths for research in electronics, photography, radio, lens grinding, chemistry, astronomy, biology. He has built a radio-controlled boat, is working on two projects in which he thinks the Army...