Word: contesting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been receiving medication and started running last week. But Petrie had not practiced for three or four weeks before Wednesday's contest, and he tired late in the game. He made eight of 19 field goal attempts...
...cruel hoax was perpetrated on the contestant, spectators, and Aunt Jemima at Wednesday's first annual Quincy House Pancake Eating Contest, The official winner, the Raccoon, admitted that an integral part, in fact the only part, of his training had been smoking a drug known as marijuana. He also said that he had had two joints before the contest...
Barnaby has always encouraged the entire Harvard team to enter the Tournament. "This early contest is a chance to see the best of the intercollegiate field," Barnaby said. "Our number-nine man can see that he perhaps is only a few points away from the first-class players. That can give a player the extra incentive he needs to practice a little more...
Bennett H. Beach 71, a heavy favorite in pre-contest betting, finished a disappointing last among the four contestants-barely forcing down nine of the 7 pancakes...
...Rick on a tough schedule-smoking grass every day and never going to bed before 4 a.m.," said Bishop. "Then the stoned Munchies-brought on by two pre-contest joints-floated my man to victory," he added...