Word: match
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quality of their gifts has depended as much on their times as on themselves, and what they brought was sometimes meaningful, sometimes beautiful, but not always both together. If the early Christians who painted frescoes by candlelight in the catacombs of Rome had not sufficient skill to match the underground fire of their faith, Raphael, who worked with consummate grace for a triumphant Church, lacked their pent force...
...Mister Crump was ready for anything. For the governorship, he would run incumbent Jim McCord, no ball of fire but a man of considerable personal popularity. For the senatorship, he wanted a man with a war record to match Gordon Browning's. Thus eliminated from consideration as a Crump candidate, Tom Stewart bravely announced last week that he would run for re-election anyway. Snapped Ed Crump: "Stewart will be going around in circles, not knowing the directions, north, east, south, or west...
...Worcestershire. He made little impression at school or Varsity, or in the House of Commons. After seven years in Parliament he was feeling useless and ready to quit. But his wife, Lucy Ridsdale (with whom he had fallen in love as he watched her bowl in a cricket match), urged him to stick it out three more years...
...enough. I been around a long time." Joe said he'd like to fight either Joe Walcott or Light-Heavyweight Gus Lesnevich. Nobody took the remark seriously: it was obviously part of the maneuvering to scale down Walcott's terms for a return match. At least there'd be an anguished outcry if Joe Louis fought anyone but Walcott. A reporter asked Louis: did he have enough money to retire? "Yeah." Then, with a grin: "I can always go back to the Ford plant. I'm on leave of absence...
...National Individual Match Game Championship. Unlike the mammoth A.B.C. tourney (in which 18,000 entrants compete), this was for the nation's 168 best bowlers. Only the strongest survived the 100-game grind. Halfway through, thumbs and middle fingers began to swell. In the "bowlers' paddock" in the armory's basement, liniment was rubbed-on sore left legs and left hips. When the 16 finalists dug in for the final 32 games, Wilman pushed into the lead by a fraction of a point. The crowd roared when the pins went down. A local...