Word: loser
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just whipped Soviet Decathlon Hero Vasily Kuznetsov, but the husky U.S. Negro got a brotherly buss from the loser and a tremendous roar of approval from the 30,000 fans, as he mounted the winner's platform in Moscow's Lenin Stadium and smilingly held a bouquet of flowers aloft in triumph. Rafer Lewis Johnson, 22, of Kingsburg, Calif, had treated appreciative Muscovites to one of the greatest individual performances in track and field history. He had amassed a world-record 8,302 points in the rugged decathlon*—:considered by many the toughest test of human endurance...
...recent evening, Japanese at their 14-inch TV screens watched breathlessly as a topknotted samurai disarmed his opponent after some ferocious swordplay. The cowering loser awaited the death thrust; instead, the victor tossed him a bottle of tranquilizer pills, shouted the manufacturer's name and advised: "If you took these regularly, you wouldn't get into such...
...asked me what to do. I said, 'Be yourself.' " He invited Zsa Zsa back for a return match and said, when she came back two days later: "My name is Jack Paar. I'm the announcer on the Zsa Zsa Gabor show." Paar was a gallant loser. Closing out their first show, he explained: "When I saw her on a little local show in California ... I wanted her right away." Unwilling to let a man have the last word, Zsa Zsa interrupted: "Nobody gets me right away...
...party's state machinery, last week won renomination-but only by 346,554 votes to 198,599 for an opponent who had pledged "not to lift a finger" in active candidacy. The lackluster winner: 42-year-old Governor C. (for nothing) William O'Neill; the loser: former Cincinnati Mayor Charles P. Taft, who had filed only as a "standby" after O'Neill suffered a mild heart attack (TIME...
Behind 6 to 5, the Crimson came back in its half of the inning with a matching brace of scores. Two bases on balls off Penn loser Ed Langhorne were followed by run-producing singles by Jim Shue and John Davis...