Word: contests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have followed her exploits by means of Hebrew subtitles that it took four bodyguards to whisk her to safety in an elevator, where she calmly blew bubbles with her bubble gum. But the jostling aggravated an ailing leg, and Fawcett was forced to hobble on crutches to watch a contest selecting her Israeli lookalike. About the only hosts unhappy over her tour were some members of the diamond exchange in Tel Aviv, where normally frantic trading halted while the golden girl oohed over a 17-carat diamond worth $1.5 million. "She cost us a lot of money," growled one trader...
...vengeful wanderer Tarden of Cockpit (1975) and the haunted boy in Kosinski's first and best fiction, The Painted Bird. Fabian differs from his predecessors chiefly in occupation: he is a competitive horseman. The aging jockey plays a strange sort of polo - a one-on-one contest in which animal and rider become a single figure jousting on a timeless range. Like many equestrians, Kosinski's rider is graceful on horseback; dismounted from his horse, Big Lick, he becomes one more high-plains drifter out for an evening's gratification...
...John has been around longer, and Keyte says he looks to the senior for answers from time to time. It's a cooperation between teammates, not a contest between rivals...
...most powerful figures in America in a contest against each other," White added, "the potential for a bloody mangling nomination process is there...
WASHINGTON--Democratic Party officials yesterday predicted a long and hard-fought battle for the party nomination in 1980, while representatives on Capitol Hill predicted that Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), would easily beat President Carter in such a contest...