Word: championed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Greatest Champion. From the first, the vote swung toward 54-year-old Manuel Roxas*, who had campaigned vigorously while Sergio Osmena stood on his record and kept...
Said he: "I am going to set our house in order, restore domestic tranquillity. . . . Despite charges that I have fascist tendencies, I am going to be the greatest champion of democracy in politics as well as economics that this country...
...release goes on to tell how a Miss Ann rose, "National AAU champion for the last three years" will do some exhibition diving. Tickets, it says here, will be on sale at the door...
...feet with twelve-mile runs in Peloponnesian stone quarries. His family made sacrifices to build him up: "Sometimes I eat meat, my wife eat peas." When he arrived in Boston, sportswriters regarded him as a nice feature-story subject, but no one thought he had a chance against defending champion Johnny Kelley or Montreal's three-time winner, Gerard Cote...
...Their champion was famed Photographer Alfred Stieglitz, and his "291" gallery of modern art was their headquarters. There Matisse, Rousseau, Cézanne, Picasso, Hartley, Marin and O'Keeffe were introduced...