Word: champions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Party Conscience. Nowak was a member of the hated Bierut Politburo during the years Gomulka was under arrest, a sponsor of schemes to prevent Gomulka's return to power after the Poznan riots, a champion of the policy of encouraging anti-Semitism in order to divert the anger of the masses from the Stalinist party leaders. Nowak's name had been stricken from the list of candidates for the new Parliament...
...green-glass and white-limestone Washington, D.C. headquarters alone, N.E.A. has a staff of 560 running 31 different departments that delve into every aspect of education. Supported mostly by annual dues (now $5), it has grown far beyond its original role as the champion of the schoolteacher. It has become education's statistician, policeman and lobbyist...
...Delany expects to hit his peak as a runner by 1960. But even then there may be no one around to force him to a record. There is a good chance that after he retires the admirers of Ireland's Olympic champion will be able to boast that Delany beat them...
...career as a gentleman farmer, Northrup Knox, 28, of Buffalo, N.Y. and Aiken, S.C., demonstrated an almost tireless skill at the esoteric game of court tennis. After an afternoon's romp on the court at Boston's Tennis and Racquet Club, Knox left longtime (eight years) Champion Alastair Bradley Martin, 42, limp with exhaustion, won the U.S. amateur singles championship...
...With his countryman John Landy, the world's fastest miler, on hand to watch him perform, Australia's Herb Elliott, 19, spun around the fine track at Melbourne's Olympic Stadium in a spectacular 4:00.4. Sure that he had seen his probable successor, retired Champion Landy announced: "Here is the greatest natural runner I have ever seen...