Word: contendere
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The same tenacity makes him one of the toughest skiers on the mountain. He started skiing at two in the deep snow of the Cascade Mountains, where his parents ran a ski resort at White Pass, Wash. A gifted athlete, he has made himself into a downhill racer, even though...
NOT EVERYONE is marveling at George Bush's transformation into a legitimate contender for the Republican nomination. Many respected political analysts view the Texan's highly publicized success in the infant campaign as the confirmation of a trend threatening to change the way candidates sell themselves to the public.
Those were three episodes last week in the continuing drama of TV-radio preaching, one of the most successful and controversial enterprises in American religion. Humbard's program was performed for the 37th and splashiest annual meeting of National Religious Broadcasters (NRB), a trade association for 900 programmers. As...
Next I try Bob Abplanalp, the man who supposedly is the top contender to buy the team. I ring a Yonkers, N.Y., exchange.
President Andrew Johnson, who had been Lincoln's Veep, is scurrilously rumored to have been privy to the conspiracy-and is facing impeachment over his "soft" policy toward the defeated South. Secretary Stanton is widely believed to have been implicated in the murder. So is General Ulysses S. Grant...