Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pronounced it "the New Yorkiest place in town." Since then Winchell has always had his own table there, and uses the Stork as his night office. There, he has planned many of the crusades which have gradually promoted him in his own esteem from gossip reporter to the foremost champion of human rights. But last week the Champ was screaming as shrilly as the kind of drunken blonde that Billingsley never, never allows in his club. Walter had been accused of ignoring an act of "discrimination" * that was made no more than a table-hopper's hop from...
White promptly fired off a telegram to Winchell, demanding an explanation. The row was fanned busily by the New York Post, which often vies with Winchell as the foremost champion of human rights. Then Fighter Sugar Ray Robinson weighed in. Sugar Ray said he would regretfully quit Winchell's Damon Runyon Memorial Fund unless Billingsley, also on the fund committee, "cleared up the situation immediately." Josephine Baker had given the fund the $20,000 proceeds of a Los Angeles appearance and Sugar Ray had just returned from a $60,000 benefit for it in Boston. Said Sugar...
...Harvard had transferred all home football activities from Jarvis to Soldiers Field. At the same time, the Yale rivalry had become so bitter that the two schools severed football ties for two years. Princeton moved up to be Harvard's foremost rival and won the 1895 battle largely by running a Crimson fumble for a score all the way from its own five yard line...
...part (at present the foremost part) of a great liberating revolution, whose main elements are material progress, political freedom and justice. Soviet aggression is a reactionary attack against that revolution, from the rear. As the Soviet pressure, diminished by the rearmament of the free world, lets up, the U.S. and its allies will be able to go about their business...
...Shell Game. In his profession, he soon found what he was looking for. Before he was 40 he was one of the world's foremost mining engineers ("My aggregate income . . . probably exceeded that of any other American engineer"), an operator of rich ore and gem mines in almost every corner of the earth, a multimillionaire whose viscera felt the first gentle urgings of philanthropy. When World War I came, Hoover, summering in England, became by accident the founder of a committee to get stranded Americans back home...