Word: championed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...campaign opened in earnest this week, Harry Truman left no doubts that he was going to campaign as the champion of labor. Six days before Labor Day, he fired off a message calling for repeal of the Taft-Hartley law, extension of social security and health insurance, an increased minimum wage (from 40? to 75?). Then he climbed aboard his newly refurbished railroad car, the Ferdinand Magellan, to carry his message to a joint A.F.L. and C.I.O. rally in Detroit, to four other Michigan cities, and Toledo...
Eulogies of Zhdanov filled the newspapers and poured from radios. Fellow Politburo members, writers and workers remembered him as "a loyal disciple of Stalin," "a simple man of powerful brain," and a "champion of housing for the workers...
Captain Adrian Quist was browned off. After all, he had represented Australia in four previous Davis Cup rounds (1936, 1938, 1939, 1946); he was also Australia's national singles champion. What if he was 35, and getting a trifle rubber-legged? Complained Quist: "I've been reading that we'll be lucky to win one of the five matches . . . Personally, I look for a very close and dramatic three-day series...
...almost anybody's tournament: not since Lawson Little (who won in 1934 and 1935) has a golfer taken the title two years in a row. At the Memphis Country Club last week, five former titleholders were among the 210 golfers seeking the crown of California's Defending Champion Robert H. ("Skee") Riegel...
...opponent from 20. The crowd was rooting for Jimmy. Both Jimmy and Farmer Schenk missed their sixth birds. Then Jimmy muffed his 23rd, almost wept when he realized that it had cost him the first prize of about $3,500 (second prize: about $2,000). Said 49-year-old Champion Schenk consolingly: "There's a realshooter, that Jimmy. I'd shoot with him any time...