Word: champion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the National Health Assembly (called by the Federal Security Administration) met in Washington last week, everybody expected a scrap. The American Medical Association, champion of medicine-as-it-is, was in one corner. In the other: spokesmen for farm groups, labor unions, consumers' associations and minority medical groups, all of which believe that U.S. medical care is too expensive and fails to reach the people who need it most...
...your hands into his neck. And when he drives, you drive, and when he comes back you come back with him. That's the only secret I know about helping a horse, and it's no secret." He might have added that a great jockey, like any champion, must have guts...
Fame crept in on the catfooted pair yesterday, offering them an aerial post with Ward Beam's World Champion Daredevils, opening soon in Ohio...
...Eliot and Adams will have one more chance to produce. Since the course this afternoon will be a full mile, instead of the three-quarter mile of the qualifying heats, no predictions are possible as to which of the three crews--Adams, Eliot, and Winthrop--will wind up College champion. Partisans of all three are equally certain of victory...
...spare time Radcliffe is all-state football end, the best high-school kicker in Georgia, a guard on the all-state basketball team, and a champion pole vaulter. Radcliffe expects to sign a big league baseball contract when he graduates in June, but says he has no favorite among the Detroit Tigers, New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox and Cleveland Indians. Says his coach: "He's still one of the boys. They kid around with him just the same and tussle with him. When he needs rolling, we roll...