Word: champs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reputations that were lost. Texas' Red-baiting, ranting Representative Martin Dies decided he might as well not try for reelection. And the U.S. voters themselves decided that they could get along better without such famed isolationists as Gerald Nye. Ham Fish. Rufus Holman. "Puddler Jim" Davis and Bennett Champ Clark...
MacLeish's inquisitor was Missouri's lame duck Bennett Champ Clark. MacLeish's offenses were the sins of liberal pamphleteering and rhetorical poetry. In the marble-pillared Senate Caucus Room, he gamely, lamely countered the poking and prodding of his tormentor...
...notch or two above their best because of three weeks of rest, the Packers pounded through New York's usually reliable line, rushed for one touchdown, passed for another. The best the Giants could do (with injured Bill Paschal, the League's ground-gaining champ, in for only two plays) was one 41-yd. touchdown-producing pass. Green Bay, looking better than the 14-to-7 score, took the U.S. pro championship home to Wisconsin...
...Attorney Tom Dewey, who had observed their mistakes, had another advantage-he had four more years of the New Deal record to throw at his opponent. In the last fortnight of the campaign he was fighting a cool, confident, hard fight, slugging it out toe to toe with the Champ. His fight-loving audiences plainly relished it whenever Dewey repeated: "Well, he asked for it-and here...
...Dewey visited St. Patrick's Cathedral, where Al Smith's casket lay, then boarded the ten-car train for Charleston, W.Va. The Governor was in a confident mood. This mood the Governor carried into his speech that night. Clearly he felt that he had taken the Champ's hardest blows, and that his own steady body-punching was wearing his opponent down. The speech kept up that hammering of the Administration...