Word: champions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Said one knowing New York Harriman Democrat gloomily: "Until Little Rock we figured we were going to make great gains in '58. The way things look, we may be down the drain for the next 15 years, and Nixon is the great civil rights champion. If Ike and the Southern governors compromise, the Democratic Party is compromised but not lost. If they don't, we're not just split-we're amputated...
Light Heavyweight Champion Archie Moore (40, going on 46), world's most successful practitioner of the art of athletic geriatrics, was a little slow sweating down to size for his title fight with Challenger Tony Anthony, 22. But ageless Archie finally got down to the 175-lb. limit, hiked up a high-waisted pair of bloomerlike trunks that protected his belly, and went to work. Tony never had a chance. The old man's cunning kept the young man's blows bouncing off arms and shoulders. When Archie rolled out of his shell, his still-swift hands...
...glass-windowed silver reliquary containing two glass vials partly filled with a dark, solid, opaque substance. As the priest turned the reliquary around and around before the golden-faced bust of St. Januarius, Naples' patron saint, onlookers prayed: "Come and grant us your favor, 0 beautiful saint, great champion of Jesus Christ...
Died. Merrill Moore, 54, psychiatrist, neurologist, longtime Harvard Medical School teacher (1930-42), compulsive "champion sonneteer" (he reputedly wrote some 100,000), whose published works (Verse Diary of a Psychiatrist, Illegitimate Sonnets, The Dance of Death) "don't represent one percent of my output"; of cancer; in Squantum, Mass...
...confused with the former heavyweight boxing champion or with Comedians Ted Lewis, Jerry Lewis, Robert Q. Lewis, Joe E. Brown or Joey Adams...