Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Short Casket," which tells of an undertaker who is cutting corners to make a dollar. His technique is unfortunate, but his exclamations are delightful--"Well, here's a nice bucket o'worms." His colleagues are less colorful, but more devoted to their trade. Their distaste for their unscrupulous competitor is eased by their faith that, "Give him enough rope, he's sure to hand himself some...
...physics and aerodynamics, through a canvass of religions and a long flirtation with the postural exercises and "positive thought" notions of Yoga. To warm up for a contest he often uses a sort of self-hypnosis, with tape recordings of his own voice firing himself with hatred for Competitor X or Y, and exhorting himself to greater effort...
...Spanish whirligig style of javelin throwing, which had been producing phenomenal results all over Europe (TIME, Oct. 29), by adding a sentence to the javelin-throwing rules: "At no time after preparing to throw, until the javelin has been discharged into the air, may the competitor turn completely around so that his back is toward the throwing...
JETLINER LEAD is claimed by Boeing for first time. President William Allen says Boeing has sold 134 four-jet 707s to 11 domestic and foreign airlines, either on firm contract or letter of intent v. 114 DC-8 jets for Competitor Douglas...
...nudging game. Ahead, husky JoAnne Gunderson, 17, national junior champion, came all unstrung with tournament jitters. Marlene-onetime British amateur women's champion (1953), four-time winner of the Canadian open (1951, '54, '55, '56) and current U.S. intercollegiate titleholder-passed her strawberry-blonde competitor on the 35th hole, won 2 and 1, became the first Canadian woman to take home the U.S. title...