Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...News, it looked for a bank where Star relatives did not sit on the board of directors. The News settled on a small bank that had no Star relatives on the board, opened its modest account there so the Star wouldn't know the finances of its new competitor...
...under 80, you have no business." Ike, whose average when he has been playing regularly stands at about 84, is currently between these two extremes. Said Pro Dudley last week: "If he had time to practice, he would play in the high 70s easily. He's a fine competitor and never gives...
...grimy Welsh mining town of Merthyr Tydfil, William Ewert Berry won first prize in an essay contest. Across the top of his essay the newsman-judge scrawled: "This competitor should enter journalism." He did; now, as Viscount Camrose, he is one of the greatest, and the most gentlemanly, of British press lords. Because he dislikes publicity, he is also the least known. Viscount Camrose, 73, and his younger (69) brother, Viscount Kemsley, owner of Britain's biggest chain of newspapers, control more newspapers and magazines than any other publishing family in the world. Last week in his annual report...
...Dream Competitor." During the whole exhausting two-day grind that a decathlon lasts, Mathias is as cool and impersonal as a coach directing a football team, constantly checking in his mind the complicated point score, deciding when to push himself to the limit, when to hold back to conserve his energy. Even when he was a green 17-year-old at the 1948 Olympics, he steadfastly refused to take his turn at the pole vault until the bar was set at 10 feet. He saw no point in wasting his energy on heights he was sure he could clear...
...predict what he can do," says Ray Dean, Stanford's assistant track coach. "All you can be sure of is that he will win. He is absolutely the greatest athlete I ever coached. He is the dream competitor-the one in 10,000 who has the temperament to match the talent...