Word: champions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five years Nasser has made the most of them. He appointed himself their champion, and his picture was in every refugee tent and barracks. His Voice of the Arabs blared from loudspeakers in every camp. Greatest potentiality for trouble was in Jordan, where more than 500,000 refugees, together with 500,000 Palestinian Arabs living in the area of Palestine that Jordan had annexed after the 1948 war, outnumbered the original Bedouins of King Hussein two to one. When Nasser called to them, they erupted into the streets, hurling stones at U.S. consulates, attacking U.N. warehouses, battling police. Last year...
...Disenchantment. What had happened? Many Middle East specialists thought that refugee disenchantment with Nasser began with the Israeli attack into the Sinai. There, before the eyes of 220,000 refugees in the Gaza Strip, their posturing champion, who was to lead the refugees back to their homeland, went down to abject defeat before the Israeli army. To every refugee came the sobering realization that no Arab leader was going to force Israel into the sea and restore them to their lands...
...them are the two key players who led the remarkable late season comeback--Dick Woolston and George Harrington. They combined to infuse the team with new vitality and aggressiveness to snap a six-game losing streak and begin a drive which came within a few seconds of downing league champion Yale in the season's finale...
Warren Spahn, ace hurler of the world champion Milwaukee Braves and the biggest winner in the major leagues last season, was voted the Cy Young Award yesterday as the top pitcher in baseball...
...League champion Princeton placed only one player, captain and blocking back John Sapoch, on the first team. However, they managed to get three onto the second team and three honorable mentions...