Word: contendere
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The place is Stockton, Calif., a city filled with a litter of lost people, most of whom pile on urine-smelling buses each morning and head for the onion, peach or walnut fields for a killing day on skinny wages. Gardner's three characters are grafted to this landscape...
Penn has been fiercely recruiting in all sports for several years, and last fall the program had a visibly rejuvenating effect on Quaker football. The Red and Blue were undefeated when they met Harvard in late October, and they lost only to the Crimson and Yale, 18-of-25 lettermen...
By any standard, he handled his duties, official and nonofficial, with devotion. Ted was probably a better Senator than were his two brothers, who found the Senate confining; with only one or two missteps, he served ably. When the 91st Congress assembled in January, he unseated Louisiana's bombastic Russell...
Mailer's rhetoric is seductive if mystical, but the program he proposes is at best elusive. While it is a reminder of treasured values lost, it is an uncertain guide to their recovery. Many may vote for Mailer nonetheless, if only because he represents an alternative to old approaches...
Unlike Citation, who won in a breeze over a middling field, Majestic Prince was not wanting for competition in the six-horse field. Rokeby Stable's Arts and Letters, the tireless little sprinter who challenged the Prince right down to the wire in the Derby and the Preakness, figured...