Word: championed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London Daily Herald, Labor's champion, found an excuse for its behavior: "Any Government which regards Parliament as a working machine and not as a mere talking shop must clearly insure . . . thai, the necessary business must go through. Otherwise it would be possible for any disgruntled minority in Parliament to obstruct indefinitely the will of the majority. And that would be the negation of democratic government." Perhaps the Daily Herald had forgotten that Labor's parliamentary majority was elected by less than 50% of Britain's voters...
...practicing. Father, putting on an act of what he called "wrathful psychology," broke her niblick over his knee. She cried, repented, and went back to her practicing, thereupon won the Palm Springs Invitational Tournament (with play that included a par 70). Marlene's ambition: to beat National Champion Babe Didrikson Zaharias...
Another aspect of Bert's effectiveness is the lifetime of technical perfection that he can bring to bear on the small problems that matter in crew. The "lifetime" is almost literal, for when he was born in Winsor, England, his father and three uncles, all champion punters, were waiting to impart to him all their love. Bert's father impressed the principles of coxing on him at nine by cracking his knuckles when he made a miscalculation. This is one teaching device that Bert has not found it expedient to carry over to the Harvard scene...
When Joe Louis was just a young heavyweight champion, he thought nothing of flattening seven third-raters in one year. It kept him in practice, and pleased the promoters, the public and his pocketbook. Last week Joe Louis was feeling his full 32 years. To the press he announced: "I did the Bum-of-the-Month thing, you know . . . but it isn't worth while now, not at my age." Then, for lack of an able-bodied foe, he-called off the fight he had scheduled for June...
...only two fights left in him, said Joe. He would defend his crown, for the 24th time, in September. Probable victim: second-rater Joe Baksi (see PRESS). Then, in another year, he would give someone else a final chance at him, and then retire-as undefeated champion, he hoped...