Word: championing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wall went up between West and East. One must wonder what would happen if once again Berlin was in danger, a city that has thrived under the protection of the Allies. The students should realise that they are using the democratic freedom of West Berlin to champion a cause that, if victorious, would withdraw their freedom of expression from them immediately. If they still feel that this is what they want, they certainly have an option-to move from West Berlin into East Germany, where the government would surely welcome them with open arms to offset, in a small...
...expert at Yale (class of 1913), coached crew and rowed in the same shell with Dean Acheson, later was an eight-goal polo player at Long Island's Meadow Brook club. Even today, dismounted, the slim six-footer is acknowledged by Hobe Sound (Fla.) residents to be a champion croquet strategist...
...fight to establish the lead in the mile and one-quarter race. The question in the stretch would simply be whether the late-running Dancer's Image would be able to catch the tiring Forward Pass. It is a tough assignment for any horse; for a sore-ankled champion, tougher still...
...Ohio, Senator Frank J. Lausche, a conservative and the state's champion vote-getter, trailed John J. Gilligan, a Cincinnati city councilman, in the race for the Democratic nomination for the 72-year-old Lausche's Senate seat...
Clearly, the tactics cannot work without popular aims and a liberal humanitarian opponent, like a college administrator or Hale Champion of the B.R.A. Still, given these conditions, the new pressure politics can achieve nearly anything...