Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deputies and three New Albany policemen gave the porno king appropriate treatment by watching through a one-way mirror. The night before Thevis was to be returned to Springfield-he had lost the case and was ordered to pay $675,000 to insurance companies and a former peep-show competitor-he was let out of his cell to make a phone call. He never returned. Three hours after he was last seen, someone thought to notify the police...
...while riding Johnny D. that Cauthen first convinced the experts that he was developing as a shrewd competitor. In the Laurel International, one of the major grass races of the year, Cauthen took an early lead and then throttled back to lull his rivals?setting a "false pace," track people say. In the stretch, Cauthen suddenly drove Johnny D. on, catching the field off guard, and came home a winner...
...conviction, expressed frankly to anyone who asked, that he was the greatest golfer in the world. True, Jack Nicklaus has won more of the sport's major prizes than Player, 14 to 9, but the South African looks at the situation differently. He argues, correctly, that no other competitor has done so well in so many big tournaments around the world, coping with jet lag, strange surroundings and quirky greens. Player has won seven Australian Opens, three British Opens, ten South African Opens. "To be the world's best," he says, "you must win around the world." Player...
...distressed that my classmate R. Jerrold Gibson '51, director of the Office of Fiscal Services, should so casually dismiss the proposal of Boston University's President John R. Silber for a tuition advance fund. Harvard's endowment, twice its nearest competitor, may yield immunity from the problems of financing higher education but the rest of the nation is not so blessed. Mr. Gibson's contempt for this plan, however, was not shared by his Harvard colleagues in 1968. As one of Dean Ebert's associate deans at Harvard Medical School in that era, I helped the dean promote the national...
...this gloomy, wind-tossed afternoon, the event became an uncontrollable nightmare, with only one competitor clearing the opening height. Northeastern's Paul Grant cleared 14 feet on his final try and registered the only points in the event. Not a true Stiles afternoon...