Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...battling blonde in pigtails, Miss Blalock won a temporary court order that allowed her to compete in the $50,000 EVE-L.P.G.A. Championship at Sutton, Mass., near her home town of Portsmouth, N.H. She played in an atmosphere of overt snubs and behind-the-back whispers. Said one competitor: "If I had been caught doing what she was doing, I wouldn't have the nerve to show my face around here." Miss Blalock, 26, and only in her fourth year on the tour, finished by showing her heels to all but one player, earning second-place prize money...
Daume's offhand remarks resembled a flurry of low blows. Olympic historians can recall no precedent for a ban, real or threatened, against a competitor on the grounds that he had a police record. Several U.S. sportsmen argued that Hunter, as a convict on the road to rehabilitation through sport, might set a better example to youth than some Olympic athletes who have never been in jail but are known not to be paragons of virtue...
Higonnet may have outclassed his competitor, Robert Darnton of Princeton, on purely academic considerations, although in fact Darnton had published more written work. Whatever the case, the important point is that Higonnet did not have to battle with academic weapons alone. Politics, both personal and partisan, enter into decisions to hire as well as decisions not to hire...
...colorful a character as her brother Jim, Ruby Folsom was seen by some as a possible competitor of her daughter's for Wallace's affections. "Shoooot, honey," scoffed Ruby, who is nearly six feet tall. "He ain't even titty high." After she campaigned for George this year in Florida, some on the Wallace staff seemed to consider her an embarrassment, and she was miffed. "Ah'm scared they're gonna tell George ah was drinkin' too much and showin' my fanny," she told a Washington Post reporter...
PGRC won the Eastern Regional Championship title last year. Vesper, the fastest competitor in this year's race and a twelve-year old club whose girls train constantly throughout the winter lifting weights and running, won the National Championship last year...