Word: championing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tupouniua and Wise looked anything but scared in leading the Crimson attack throughout the game. Gil Bettman and Paul Buddenhagen shook off their first half jitters to pace the drives. Tobey Champion and Kevin Raferty also starred in the loose...
...American Leaguer got his raise-a fat one-last week. Carl Yastrzemski, the league-champion Boston Red Sox's slugging leftfielder, signed a 1968 contract calling for a $55,000 boost...
Last year's intramural champion. Jeff Huvelle, will once again represent Eliot House as he attempts to defend his title against the field of challengers...
Mighty Notre Dame, No. 1 in 1966, was tapped to be champion again, followed by Alabama (No. 3 last year), Michigan State (No. 2), Texas, Miami, Georgia, U.S.C., U.C.L.A., Tennessee and Colorado. Yet as of the first week in October, the top five favorites had won only seven of 15 games after one of the most disastrous early seasons in anybody's history...
...raises the possibility that only in Brazil would Toynbee's safety be assured, for he found Brazilian nationalism "ironic and lighthearted." But his point, though indelicately made, is clear enough. To a passionate one-worlder, the sight of nationalism in action is dreary at best. And as a champion of religion, Toynbee would replace the statues of the national liberators with "replicas of theChrist of the Andes and pictures of the Virgin of Guadalupe...