Word: champs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Champ had swung-a full roundhouse blow. And it was plain to the newsmen on the Dewey Special that the challenger had been hit hard-as plain as when a boxer drops his gloves and his eyes glaze...
...Dewey radio would not work that night, as the Dewey party rolled through the flat Arizona desert, eastbound from California after a full week of campaigning on the coast (see below). But the reporters' radio, in the lounge car, worked perfectly, almost as perfectly as the Champ had used it. And soon word of the speech filtered through to the Dewey...
...Dewey took his case before the U.S. jury. It was his biggest case, and well he knew it. He was excited, and a trifle nervous. For one thing, he had to overcome a widespread feeling that he was just a little man with a mustache taking off against The Champ...
...former amateur boxing champ is lavish in his praise of Dick Harlow and the "Harlow system," emphasizing that, in football, "you have to keep ahead of the other fellow." Lamar's predecessor saw the need for this, and changed his system three times in the last seven years...
...Democratic Senators have fought Franklin Roosevelt more bitterly than Missouri's mulish, rufous Bennett Champ Clark, who never forgets a grudge. (His oldest grudge: in 1912 young Franklin Roosevelt, 30, helped swing the Democratic convention to Woodrow Wilson and away from the Senator's father, the late Speaker Champ Clark.) Yet Bennett Clark, campaigning for his own third term, swallowed his isolationist line and pledged himself to support Franklin Roosevelt's peace program...