Word: championship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That bravura statement of Tory faith earned her a standing ovation when she preached it to the annual convention of Young Conservatives recently. But Mrs. Thatcher's zealous championship of individual initiative may not go down well in the depressed towns of the industrial north and Scotland-the two areas where the party must gain strength if it is ever to return to power...
Providence. R.I.--Whoever conceived the idea of the home court advantage should have been here last night. After dropping four straight contests in the IAB, the Crimson cagers stormed into Marvel Gym and sneaked away with a 64-63 triumph over Bruins' Ivy championship hopes...
While a win tonight in Providence against this same Brown team will not propel the Crimson back into the league race, it will at least provide a measure of revenge, and seriously hinder the Bruins dreams of an Ivy championship...
Seven national championships were at stake in the snow-covered countryside outside Putney, Vt., last week, but nobody except the contestants seemed to care. There was no grandstand at the finish line, only a dozen spectators and race officials were on hand to greet the racers, and no one offered the finishers so much as a cup of hot chocolate. In fact, one Putney resident passing by did not even know that the U.S. National Cross-Country Championship Races, the big so-called nordic skiing event of the year, were taking place almost in her backyard...
...more severe epidemic. In 1972 the delirium was nourished by a prize fund of $250,000, twelve times greater than any previous chess purse. In 1975 the provender is grotesquely more substantial. Bobby Fischer and Anatoly Karpov, the 23-year-old Russian challenger for the World Chess Championship, have been invited by the Philippine Islands to meet in Manila on June 1 and push little wooden soldiers round a checkered board for the second largest stakes in the history of sport-$5 million...