Word: loser
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Aging (34) onetime Heavyweight Boxing Champ Ezzard Charles suffered the final indignity of losing a ten-round fight to dancing Tommy "Hurricane" Jackson, who shuffled, jumped and jabbed his way to a unanimous decision. Explained Loser Charles: "I loafed." ¶ As the Davis Cup challenge round drew near (Aug. 26-28), the U.S. tennis team suffered what might be a crippling blow: 24-year-old Tony Trabert, French and Wimbledon champion, was out of action with a pulled shoulder muscle. Unless he recovers, his two erratic teammates, Vic Seixas and Hamilton Richardson, will have difficulty hanging on to the hard...
...sitting with Hano at that game (Giants 5, Indians 2), and rummaging through his baseball memories with him, is fine fun. Still, the reader wonders what has happened to Arnold Hano since the Giants won that series - and fell back on this season's evil days. As a loser, the Giant fan is probably more exasperating than he ever was as an arrogant winner...
...American Magazine, Woman's Home Companion) showed a profit: $100,000 for the first half of 1955, v. a loss of $1,734,510 for 1954's first half. In this year's second quarter even Collier's, the company's biggest money-loser, brought in a profit...
...Loser Douglas, it wasted no time taking off on a brand-new plane for long-range runs. Douglas announced that it would build a true-jet 80-to-125 passenger DC-8 transport to fly nonstop across the U.S. in less than five hours, planned to shell out between $40 million and $60 million to get the DC-8 in the air by 1958. Though Douglas has no firm orders for its DC-8, the company is betting that it will be the first U.S. planemaker to put a true-jet transport in airline service. Boeing Airplane Co., which gambled...
...loser, and she said that umpires...