Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sharp a competitor to underrate his own talents or misjudge a rival, Johnson began pointing for the 1956 contest back in 1952, when as a 16-year-old high-school sophomore he went to Tulare, Calif., to see Bob Mathias earn a trip to his second Olympics. The complicated scoring was beyond young Rafe (as it is beyond almost everyone else but the judges), but he was not too modest to decide that he was as good as or better than most of the entrants...
...transition from carefree vacationer to record-breaking competitor was no romp in the surf. Ever since Carin decided to become a champion she has submitted to an endless grind. In the winter she works out five days a week in the Y.M.-Y.W.C.A. pool near her Ridgewood home. Once a week she travels to Manhattan for professional training at the Women's Swimming Association. When the weather warms up, she spends every day at Ridgewood's outdoor municipal pool, swims a mile morning and evening when the pool is uncrowded. "Afternoons," says Carin, "I put on my plaid...
...hoopla (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). The 13-page complaint filed in Detroit's Federal District Court charged that G.M.'s bus division (annual sales: $55 million) conspired with four major bus operators to corner 84% (2,724 units) of the bus market last year. Its largest competitor, the Flxible Co., sold only...
...according to the Justice Department, exercised illegal control by 1) putting a G.M. officer in as board chairman of a principal competitor; 2) extending preferential prices to favored customers; 3) refusing to sell buses to competitors of favored customers; and 4) inducing officials of municipal bus lines to write restrictive specifications to exclude bids from other manufacturers. As a result, said the complaint, more than 20 G.M. competitors have withdrawn from bus-building since 1925, and no new company has come into the field since 1946. The Government asked the court to "perpetually" prohibit G.M.'s monopolistic practices...
...other two qualifiers, poised himself, took eight carefully measured steps and took off. His foot caught the bar and dragged it into the sawdust. Dumas drew on his sweat clothes and strolled to one end of the stadium. It was late in the evening. He was the last competitor, and some 35,000 eyes were on him as he walked and thought for several minutes in a strange sort of solitude under the flaring floodlights. Then he came back, peeled off his sweat clothes and squinted at the bar. His nostrils flared, and he charged, slamming the take-off point...