Word: champions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slap of a wet cod across a face. Newspapers poke sly fun at her, other M.P.s snicker at her, county squires snort: "She's a disgrace to public life." But among her constituents in Liverpool's grimy dockland, Mrs. Bessie Braddock, M.P., is a beloved and admired champion...
Before the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on refugee problems, New Yorker Corsi loudly played to the hilt the role of a martyred champion of refugees who are seeking to enter the U.S. The refugee act. he said, became a "national scandal" because of the way it was administered by "a security gang" led by Robert W. Scott McLeod, the State Department's security director. Cried Corsi: "The administration of the act is wholly dominated by the psychology of security. Refugees are investigated to death . . . The investigation, the police job, is the thing, not the admission of refugees. That is just...
Before anyone ran out of hoked-up records, the Dodgers set an early-season mark that took the boredom off every sports page. They won ten straight games, ran down the world champion Giants, breezed by the feeble Phillies, and tripped up the faltering Pittsburgh Pirates on the way. No major-league team had shown more early foot since the National League New Yorks of 1884 took twelve in a row (and stumbled home in a fourth-place...
...baseball team, whose Colgate game was rained out yesterday, goes after its third straight Eastern League will this afternoon when it meets defending champion Navy at Soldiers Field...
Monday the varsity faces last year's NCAA Eastern Regional champion, Northeastern, in an away game...