Word: contests
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...elected a Member of Parliament. Among its grievances is the fact that the British government allows free campaigning privileges on the government-owned BBC radio and TV only to parties putting up at least 50 candidates; and there are only 36 Welsh seats in the House of Commons to contest. Hammering away at England's "colonialist" attempts at "cultural genocide" for Wales, the nationalists demand recognition of the Cymric language in the schools, faster industrialization in Wales to compensate hardscrabble valley settlements for closed-down mines, and commonwealth status...
...Larry Adler. For a long time there was the matter of talent. The son of a Baltimore plumber, he was tossed out of the Peabody School of Music in short order. Diagnosis: a tin ear. He was 13 when he read that the Baltimore Sun was sponsoring a harmonica contest. He spent three weeks teaching himself to play, won, and wasted little time heading for New York...
...Wodehouse story it is perfectly natural for the cartoonist of a syndicated U.S. comic strip to find himself sharing a British beach resort with contenders in an American-type "Beautiful Babies" contest, for a New York publisher to be found naked in the hothouse of a dwelling on Wimbledon Common, or even for a member of Edwardian London's Drones Club to consult Webster's Dictionary rather than the Oxford. Victorian and Edwardian euphemisms such as "bally" and "ruddy" work their way into the tale of a British knight who once "allowed some hornswoggling highbinder to stick...
...hefty wind blew in from left field during the contest, holding up several balls at the base of the fence and keeping the score down considerably...
Playing at first singles, Captain Ned Weld routed Navy's Dave Houghton 6-2, 6-3, while Bob Bowditch crushed the Middies' number two man, Marv Osburn, 6-2, 6-2. In the only close contest of the day, Tim Gallwey in third position defeated Nick Temple...