Word: champion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ugly job he must do is competently handled. Under General Marshall, he knows it is; and this is why the U.S. soldier, in action, has proved utterly dependable and determined-the ultimate test of morale. Before & after the battle the U.S. soldier will proudly remain the world's champion grouser-he will beef handsomely even at the Victory Parade...
Skiers ignored Hitler's demand for 20 blond Aryans to compete at Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Himmler went to Norway and repeated the invitation, with threats. No results. Olympic Champion Birger Ruud announced that he would burn his skis before he would compete in compulsory Germanic sports...
Numbed Bodies. A full 35 minutes after the accident, passengers huddled atop the embankments heard an ominous sound. Up the northbound track, at a full 90 m.p.h., roared the Tamiami East Coast Champion, heading straight into the derailed cars. There was a sickening screech, a clattering crash; then stillness and, finally, the small cries of the hurt and dying...
Numbed Senses. Nobody had a rational explanation for the catastrophe. Nobody seemed to know why warning torpedoes had not been placed on the northbound track. The railroad explained that the West Coast Champion's fireman had gone down the track to set a fusee, had stumbled and destroyed his only one. Passengers then lit newspapers...
...East Coast Champion's engineer, who survived the crash, had seen no warning signal...