Word: championing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vanguard of the working class by championing the immediate and fundamental interests of all workers, farmers, Negro people, and all workers, farmers, Negro people, and all others who labor by hand and brain, against capitalist exploitation and oppression. We champion these immediate aims both because the gains made in these fights will improve the lot of the people affected and because they lay a basis for further successful struggles against exploitation, war, racism, and dehumanization. We disagree with other radical left organizations who believe the road to socialism is based on defeats or, at best, Pyrrhic victories. Such defeats...
With such unpredictable performances from the animals, the film's villain, former Olympic Decathlon Champion Rafer Johnson, chickened out on a scheduled wrestling scene with a leopard. "It was chained to a tree," explained Rafer, "and it was ripping the bark right off with its claws. I told the director: 'You get yourself another boy.' " Johnson was not the only recalcitrant actor. On the day Tarzan returned to the set, he was directed to ambush three Indian extras. Mike out-Tarzaned his thirteen predecessors, played it like a red-dogging linebacker, taking out all three with...
...from cuts over both eyes, he stubbornly fought on, even though his cause was hopeless. After 15 rounds, the judges' verdict was unanimous for Tiger. Giardello had no excuses. "I wanted to show New York a good fight," he said, and announced that he was retiring. At that, Champion Tiger could only wonder rhetorically: "How can he live if he does not fight...
...Governor" Mrs. Raymond A. Busier wrote the Montgomery Advertiser, "but if I can be forgiven, I'll never again. Wake up Alabamians, before you sell your birthright for a mess of pottage." State Representative Kenneth Ingram protested in the Birmingham News that he had previously considered Wallace "a champion of conservatism, but now I find that he is advocating what appears to me to be liberalization of our very own Alabama constitution...
Other senior eights will include crews from M.I.T., Northeastern, Dartmouth, and the Potomac Boat Club. Seated in one of the three Northeastern eights will be freshman Bill Maher, current North American Single Sculls champion...