Word: championing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...champion Roberts concurred: "Mixed doubles is such a riot. It's the only time the guys and girls get to do anything together. There is not that pressure to win. It's more of a culture thing...
...Pavarotti, reaching a top note brings on a mystical feeling such as a champion high-jumper might experience. "That second when you clear the bar in mid-air you lose consciousness," he says. "It is something physical, animal, beyond control. A moment later you are back on the ground and in full control." The haunting, universal fear that some day he will jump and miss?"that I shall open my mouth and no sound will come out" ?gives Pavarotti the whim-whams before every performance. In 1972 he made a transatlantic call to Beverly Sills about their upcoming appearance...
...says. "With school starting, I haven't had a chance to think much about it." But her neighbors have. A billboard down the street from the Austins' white brick ranch house in Rolling Hills proclaims SECOND ANNUAL TRACY AUSTIN PRO-CELEBRITY TOURNAMENT. With a champion of 16 in residence, there should be many more to come...
...Mcllroy is certain: he is an incurable hospital addict. In the past 34 years he has been admitted at least 207 times to 68 different hospitals in Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales for a breathtaking variety of diseases and disorders. Indeed Mcllroy seems beyond doubt to be the alltime champion sufferer of Munchausen's syndrome...
Joining the gridders in New York, the men's soccer team will also face Columbia, the defending Ivy League champion (sic). Coach George Ford's booters are coming off a disappointing year and will seek to avoid the abysmal start that chilled last year's title hopes...