Word: championing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most thorough stomping of the day came at number one, where sophomore John Levin kept up the hot play which defeated Bernie Adelsberg, the defending New England champion, in a test match Monday. Levin overawed his Bruin opponent 6-0, 6-2. Adelsberg was also impressive in a 6-3, 6-0 victory...
Hank Bauer, manager of the World-Champion Baltimore Orioles, has quit smoking, and is, if possible, even more menacing. Richie Allen, third baseman for the Philadelphia Phillies, has shaved off his mandarin mustache. There was a possibility that neither Lyndon Johnson nor Hubert Humphrey would be available to throw out the first ball at the Washington Senators' opening game this week-a fact that could not really displease the Senators, who have lost three straight openers with Johnson and Humphrey on the hill. For their home opener, the luckier California Angels acquired the services of Governor Ronald Reagan...
...avant-garde and traditional, the paradox is typical. He is a fervent Roman Catholic who feels a primitive reverence for nature, a musical innovator who retains his childhood love for Mozart and Chopin. Although he stands aloof from the factions of the music scene, he is a teacher and champion of such different composers as Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen...
...Cambridge mavor, criticized about poor snow removal in the late 1930's, responded, "God put the snow there--let Him take it away." It is in such quotes that the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) finds its reason for existence. Formed in 1945, the CCA was to be the champion of "good government" and the fighter of corruption. In practice, its major job has been the endorsement of candidates for the School Committee and the City Council in the biannual municipal elections...
...rest was easy. In no other match did M.I.T. win a set, and number-one man Bernie Adelsberg was the only Crimson player besides Devereaux to be extended. Adelsberg, last year's New England Intercollegiate Champion, was erratic as he overpowered M.I.T.'s Rich Thurber 7-5, 6-3. He then teamed with captain Brian Davis to win the second doubles, 8-6, 6-3 over M.I.T.'s Cart Weissgerber and Steve Deneroff, Davis had routed Weissgerber earlier in the number two singles...