Word: championing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Block's most ardent champion is its reigning queen, Stripper Blaze (40-24-38) Starr. At 34, Blaze is still the liveliest ecdysiast on the Block and heads the bill at her own nightspot, the Two O'Clock Club, whose value she estimates at $500,000. "You have to change with the times," Blaze says. "I'm not against urban renewal, but Baltimore needs a place for conventioneers and tourists." Often half her audience is composed of women friends who work with her on various Baltimore charities. Blaze is respectable and respected, but she is sadly aware...
Forty-two teams will compete to determine the National Collegiate champion. Teams consist of one man in each weapon--foil, sabre, and epee...
...Crimson has many reasons to be optimistic about the weight events, and one of the biggest is captain Dick Benka, shot-putter supreme. This winter, Benka went undefeated in dual meets, was IC4A and Heptagonal champion, and took fourth place in the NCAA indoor championships...
Munro rates Princeton and defending champion Cornell as the teams the Crimson must worry most about. "Yale is the darkhorse I think, and Brown should finish somewhere in the first division," Munro added...
...Eagles win the finals today, they will be the first Massachusetts team to win since 1954 when Cousy's alma mater, Holy Cross, was the champion...