Word: championed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...result of my experience, I am always interested when spelling is portrayed in pop culture. On last week’s episode of “Grey’s Anatomy,” two doctors performed brain surgery on a teenage boy, a spelling champion, in fact. The boy was awake during the procedure and the doctors tried to engage him in conversation to chart his progress. Painfully shy, the boy hesitated to speak about baseball and girls, two topics with which he was obviously unfamiliar, but when he mentioned that he was a speller and the doctors challenged...
...million Prize money to be paid to each French Open singles champion this year, the first time the women's winner at the tennis tournament will receive as much...
During the weekend, the Harvard women’s water polo team faced the daunting task of facing perennial division champion Hartwick, division rival Brown, which had already beaten the Crimson twice this year, and ranked non-league foe Michigan.While Harvard (10-11, 2-5 CWPA Northern Division) put up a gallant effort against each of its opponents, it could not scratch out a win.The Crimson fell to the No. 13-ranked Hawks (20-9, 7-0) 16-7 at home on Friday and lost 10-6 to the Bears (11-13, 4-3) on Saturday afternoon in Providence, before...
...unlike last season, when the Crimson returned just two oarsmen from the previous year’s boat, Harvard will return six members from its IRA-champion boat of 2005. More experienced, seasoned, and accustomed to one another, this year’s varsity eight seems primed for what has become an eerily consistent dismantling of the EARC field...
...back end of a weekend road double feature against Gehrig heavyweights Princeton and Cornell, the Crimson (8-9-1, 4-0 Ivy) swept the defending division champion Big Red (5-12, 1-3) on its own turf. And it did so in dominant fashion, scoring 26 runs and allowing only nine...