Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...couple of days the toughest competitor in the National Open championship at New Jersey's Baltusrol Golf Club seemed to be the course itself: its dipped and rolling greens, its narrow dogleg fairways, its devilish rough. Patient and unforgiving, it took on the nation's best golfers...
...madam called Fauna who runs the Bear Flag and once masterminded a flourishing South American export trade in shrunken human heads. She keeps a former competitor's noggin in a desk drawer to remind her of the good old days...
...backing of canny State Chairman John M. Bailey, and in a January poll, he ran ahead of his closest competitor, ex-Congressman Abraham A. Ribicoff. But while Bowles pondered, the politicians lost patience; while he played Hamlet, Ribicoff played Romeo, wooed and won party support. Even Bailey switched. At a Jefferson-Jackson dinner in Hartford, Ribicoff got a bigger hand for standing up and bowing than Bowles got for making a speech...
...Indianapolis, Bill Vukovich, at the wheel of a Fuel Injection Special, won the 38th annual 500-mile Indianapolis Motor Speedway race. Grinding for more than 3½ hours around the fume-fouled track, Vukovich maintained an average speed of 130.84 m.p.h., fastest time in speedway history. His nearest competitor: Jimmy Bryan, driving a Dean Van Lines Special, who finished one lap behind...
...long ago, Francis Albert Sinatra seemed at the other end of his string. The crooner and his career dangled hopelessly as one competitor after another zipped up the popularity and bestselling list, and Frankie's public and private relations (i.e., with his second wife, Cinemactress Ava Gardner) grew progressively worse. Over their coffee and cheesecake at Lindy's, the Broadway arbiters of show business pronounced their verdict: Frankie was about washed...