Word: championing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time national champion still has a chance to surpass Pera tonight in the free skating competition, the deciding event in the championship...
...Wood, silver medal winner in the recent Winter Olympics, holds a slim lead over defending champion Emmerich Danzer of Austria in the battle for first place...
...hardly talk that way any more. But Dr. Max Rafferty, California's superintendent of public instruction, does, and he loves his purple style. So do a lot of voters. An author of alarmist books on the U.S. educational system, he is also his state's alltime champion vote getter. At the Palladium last week he declared his candidacy for the U.S. Senate seat held by fellow Republican Thomas Kuchel, and as the darling of California's hard-lining conservatives, Rafferty just might give Tom Kuchel a tough fight for the nomination. Kuchel, the Senate minority whip...
...single unsold seat for an N.H.L. game since 1946. In Montreal, scalpers demand-and get-as much as $30 for a pair of $5 tickets to Canadiens' home games. Despite six cellar finishes in seven years, the Boston Bruins consistently outdraw pro basketball's nine-time World Champion Boston Celtics...
...jump, Harvard stood third in the team standings after superlative Alpine performances. But Mitchell's injury had a big psychological effect on Harvard's other jumpers. "Our guys were just trying to live through the experience," Friedman said. Their sub-par performance dropped Harvard to sixth place. Perennial champion Dartmouth edged Middlebury to capture the team title...