Word: championed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This unexpected turndown left the Defense Plant Corp. with only two prospective tenants for Geneva-the Colorado Fuel & Iron Corp. and a syndicate headed by Henry Kaiser, indefatigable champion of basic industry for the West. Neither has made a specific bid for Geneva...
...Censor Binford was making Memphis as famed for prudery and intolerance as Boston. The son of a Southern infantry colonel, he left school after learning long division, became a railway postal clerk at 16. He went to Memphis, became an insurance company president, and also a staunch Baptist, Mason, champion of Southern womanhood and white supremacy...
...Bruce Woodcock, whose quiet manner camouflaged a paralyzing right-hand wallop. In 19 professional fights, he had won 18 of them by knockouts within six rounds. Last week, paying $2 to $42 for their seats, 38,000 jammed London's Tottenham Stadium to see Challenger Woodcock meet Champion Jack London for the British and Empire heavyweight, crown...
Tucking chin into shoulder in true British style, blue-eyed Bruce saved his Sunday punch for five rounds. Then, putting 182 Ibs. of power into a short right, he blasted the 215-lb. champion through the ropes. The champ made the mistake of climbing right back into the ring, and another right finished...
There was nothing noble about John Wilkes, who was turned into a patriot by his own rashness, and into a hero by his enemies' folly. As he confessed, he was not himself a "Wilkite," not a republican -though he grew, with time, into a true champion of liberty and progress. But the case transcended the man.* It became one of those symbolic agitations that arouse a whole people who have been brooding over their wrongs to a furious defense of their rights...