Word: championed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Balkan satellites are closed to him, Low confesses to a certain loneliness: "You miss those little men from the security police who tail you, the knowledge that your telephone is tapped, and the interesting things the Communist newspapers write about you" (one described Low as "the Ronald Colman-type champion of American imperialism"). As a final bit of intelligence extracted from his last trip behind the Curtain, Low reports that the hottest black market item now is playing cards. None have been manufactured there since before the war, and there are no Communist allocations for reviving the industry...
Anyone who wants to take Fred Ravreby's University heavyweight crown away from him in the next three years is welcome to try. Scoring his second first round knockout in two weeks, Ravreby, a freshman, kayoed Dale Chadwick, last year's University heavyweight champion, in 1:10 of the first round to end the University Boxing Championship finals held in the Blockhouse yesterday afternoon...
John Baker of Dudley, House 155 pound champion, easily added the 155 pound University title to his laurels by whipping Cyril Devery of Kirkland. Knocked through the ropes in the third round, Devery hung on to finish out the fight...
...Eastern champion Ted Norris couldn't quite match Bill Heusner of Northwestern or Ralph Sala of Stanford in the 1500-meter freestyle race last night in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in the twenty-sixth annual National Collegiate Athletic Association swimming championships...
Norris will probably compete tomorrow in the 440-yard freestyle against defending champion Bill Smith of Ohio State, Emile Estoclet and Johnny Moore of Yale, and Cadet Jack Craigle...