Word: championed
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...DIED. BEST MATE, 10, champion Irish-born steeplechase racehorse; in Exeter, England. A three-time winner of the prestigious Cheltenham Gold Cup and beloved by racegoers, the legendary gelding collapsed from a heart attack just before the last jump on the Exeter course as his trainer, Henrietta Knight, looked on. Known to millions of fans as "Matey," he had just returned to form after recuperating from a burst blood vessel. "He died doing what he loved, which was to race," said Knight, of the graceful, gutsy and reliable jumper...
...collegiate captain, the NCAA champion, the NHL veteran—he’s all of these things, but last year Harvard men’s hockey coach Ted Donato ’91 was just another rookie...
...Innocence. Movies, and movie critics, so regularly champion the audacious, the reckless, the most, that an achievement like Martin Scorsese's & with this impeccable adaptation of an Edith Wharton novel may be overlooked. The plot brings together a gentle man (Daniel Day-Lewis) and a worldly woman (Michelle Pfeiffer). But the true subject is reticence, its charms and perils -- the mannerly, orderly life that most of us try to live. Tiptoeing through the plush parlors of old Manhattan, the film finds ecstasy in the kissing of a lady's wrist, and heartbreak in a sigh. This, then, is Scorsese...
...what it will do for the community,” Lorentzen said. “It’s great to see the highest level squash coming here. It will be inspiring for people to watch.”Lorentzen, a four-time 19-and-under junior national champion, a two-time U.S. junior team member, and the fifth-place finisher at the 2005 British Junior Open, was accepted into the class of 2008 but spent the past year-and-a half touring with the Women’s International Squash Player’s Association.“This...
...doubt about it, West has a penchant for populism, and he seems to carry none of the ivory tower pretensions some of his colleagues tend to champion...