Word: championed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...orderliness and his perpetual puttering, pouncing on him in howling droves when he modestly retired behind a bush to relieve himself. Then the letters from home began to arrive, mentioning the Pyle column or enclosing clippings of it. Slowly it dawned on the G.I.s that they had acquired a champion, a man who really understood and cared what they-not as regiments or armies but as individual men-were like and were trying to do. Their affection grew as, time & again, they saw Pyle force himself to share their dangers and keep on sharing them, despite the increasing fears that...
...losses are compensated somewhat by the acquisition of some very promising new material. A newcomer to the Harvard V-12 unit, but nevertheless an eligible man for competition this summer is Bill Murray, champion javelin thrower from Holy Cross. Also in the V-12 is Walter Harwood, a pole vaulter from Phillips Exeter Academy...
...Uplifter. Mrs. Ballinger is no champion of racial equality, an unthinkable proposition among the Union's whites. But she fights ardently for better economic, educational and social opportunities for the blacks. She has had an uphill struggle...
...Solons of the National Amateur Athletic Union solemnly decided last week that Claude ("Buddy") Young, famed University of llinois sprinter, could not call himself the 1944 A.A.U. 100-meter champion-even though he had won the race in a handy 10.5 seconds. Reason: Young and the five other Negroes in the 100-meter final were all disqualified for jumping the gun twice in the course of five false starts. The race was finally run as an exhibition just to please the crowd...
...Third-seeded, Dorothy May Bundy, 27, of Santa Monica, Calif.; her first na tional clay-courts tennis championship ; by defeating fourth-seeded Mary Arnold 7-5, 6-4 ; at the Detroit Tennis Club. Daughter of May Sutton and Tom Bundy, both former national-title holders, the new champion scored the upset of the year by eliminating National Champion Pauline Betz, 7-5, 6-3, in the semifinals...