Word: championing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Allah has happened to him. Just yesterday he was "the Greatest," a carefree teenager who chattered amusingly about winning the heavyweight championship of the world and driving around in a tomato-red Cadillac. Now he is 24, divorced, in Dutch with the draft, condemned by Congressmen. He is the "champion of the world," but it is a smallish world: eleven states, the United Kingdom, Europe, Africa, Australia, and the Brotherhood of Black Muslims...
...license in Chicago, and he can't get a fight anywhere with Ernie Terrell, who claims to be the champion of the rest of the world...
Last week Champion Clay was reduced to fighting for pocket money in Toronto, a hockey town, against George Chuvalo, a onetime used-car salesman. When it was all over and he had won, Clay suffered one more indignity: the Canadian government held up his purse, to make sure that he paid his taxes...
...Amid a riot of witty wordage and abundant alliteration, TIME portrayed Merrick not as a promethean, prolific, prodigious producer, or as a brilliant Broadway Brahma, but as (horrors!) the Abominable Showman! Couldn't you have kindly conceded that this charming champion of the theater has brought delight to thousands of theatergoers, given work to throngs of thespians, and made a place in the sun for worthy playwrights? JANE RENTON SMITH Plymouth Meeting...
...baskets with assists, as the 76ers beat the Baltimore Bullets 108-104 in their last game of the season. The victory was Philadelphia's eleventh straight, and it earned the 76ers the N.B.A.'s Eastern Division championship-by the slim margin of one game over the perennial champion (nine straight years) Boston Celtics...