Word: match
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Osborne and Brough, who have not lost a national doubles championship match in four years, beat Betz and Doris Hart. Score...
...rival, Ezequiel Padilla, grandiloquent apostle of international cooperation, traveled on a shoestring. His backers, a few conservative businessmen and some ardent amateurs, could not match the turnouts of Alemán's labor unions and bureaucrats. But those who shouted "Viva!" were truly enthusiastic. Padilla's eloquent speeches attacked traditional Mexican "imposition" of the Government candidate, flayed the Communists, subtly played for Church support. Oldtimers compared Padilla to the U.S.'s William Jennings Bryan -a magnificent orator, an impractical politician. Padilla's outspoken wartime cooperation with the U.S. had not endeared him to the average, nationalist...
Fishing Probabilities. Swaggering little Enrico Fermi, who put the match to history's first atomic chain reaction, led off with a circumstantial account of how a chain-reacting pile works...
...match the mountains and the sea" was no match for women. Historians have made great matter of Abraham Lincoln's unhappy marriage to Mary Todd; romantics have told and retold his tragic connection with Ann Rutledge; and now Novelist Carruthers has expanded the few known facts about Lincoln's other big (170 Ibs.) moment, Mary Owens...
...would bring a sister . . . upon condition that I would engage to become her brother-in-law with all convenient dispatch-I . . . accepted. . . , In due time [the lady] returned, sister in company sure enough-This stomached me a little. . . . I knew she was oversize, but she now appeared a fair match for Falstaff. . . . I could not for my life avoid thinking of my mother . . . from her want of teeth, weather-beaten appearance in general, and from a kind of notion that ran in my head that nothing could have commenced at the size of infancy, and reached her present bulk...