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Word: championing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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More action it is agreed, is to be expected on the local than on the national level, mostly notably in New York where Lindsay has vowed to champion the Report. Whether or not the Report is a step towards curing the "white man's sickness' 'and whether it will help prevent more violence are open questions, and nowhere more so than at Harvard

Author: By Kerry Gruson, | Title: Experts Score Report's Assumptions | 4/22/1968 | See Source »

Northeastern appears to be in an especially strong position for today's race with Jim Dietz as the stroke. Dietz has achieved the reputation of rowing's newest wonder boy. He is the official world youth champion in single sculls, and won a gold medal for the United States in double sculls at the Pan-Am games in Winnepeg last summer...

Author: By Tom Reston, | Title: Heavies Open Season Today on Charles | 4/20/1968 | See Source »

...Ministry of Commerce issued daily bulletins on the number of businesses "intervened," and newspapers and radio stations played up the wonders found in the possession of Cuba's last capitalists. In Matanzas province, Mechanic Domingo Riosa had the misfortune, for example, to be caught with light bulbs, Champion spark plugs and pistons for a Dodge engine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba: End of the Capitalists | 4/19/1968 | See Source »

Over in the National League, one of the surprises was Roger Maris. For once he was not talking about retiring. He couldn't afford to-not at those prices. The real change for the World Champion St. Louis Cardinals is the size of their swelling paychecks. Outfielder Maris is getting $75,000 this year; the lowest-paid player in the Cards' regular line-up (Shortstop Dal Maxvill) will collect $37,500; and the total payroll for the starting nine is $565,000. For that kind of money, Owner Gussie Busch obviously expects handsome results...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: Plus | 4/19/1968 | See Source »

...Negroes can no longer be crumb beggars at the white man's table," ex-heavyweight champion Muhammed Ali told an overflow M.I.T. audience yesterday. "The so-called American Negro has reached the point where he should no longer look to his slave master for economic assistance or social identity...

Author: By Joe Whitaker, | Title: Negro Must Not Beg Says Muhammed Ali | 4/19/1968 | See Source »

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