Word: contest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...assurance of an adult. A Tibetan-speaking Westerner was there, an Austrian named Heinrich Harrer, who had escaped from a prisoner-of-war camp in India and painfully made his way to asylum in Lhasa. The debate that followed between the abbot and the Dalai Lama was a genuine contest of wits, says Harrer, in which the God-King was "never for a moment disconcerted," while the venerable abbot "was hard put to hold...
...Miss Rovegliano." Little Doll first met Big Pasquale when, as a buxom peasant girl of 19, she won a beauty contest and became "Miss Rovegliano." They got along fine together until Big Pasquale ran afoul of an old friend, tough-talking Tony Esposito. There had been bad blood between the two men ever since Big Pasquale did time for hitting a man with a monkey wrench. When he got out of jail, he found that Tony had taken over the business...
...Goltz. Half Dutch, half native, he knows that he has reached his peak, and glories in the power to flog, execute, ride herd on his three young white assistants, who fear him. When a new civil-affairs officer named Major Bluphocks arrives, the stage is set for a vicious contest of wills. He has never been up against a man like de Goltz, and in the intrigue that follows Bluphocks meets disaster, as does just about everyone else in the book...
...varsity will meet Amherst in a home contest on Wednesday before going to Annapolis Friday for an important Eastern Intercollegiate match with Navy...
...Crimson, entering the contest with four wins and no losses, may be facing their toughest opponent so far this spring. Paced by Noel Feddis, perhaps the best player in the Eastern Rugby Union, New York is composed of men who have played rugby either in American colleges or on English club and university teams. Feddis saw action at Cambridge University and is honored as an Irish International rugby star...