Word: nonpareil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after Nikita Khrushchev was anointed Premier and dictator nonpareil of the Soviet Union (see FOREIGN NEWS), he was back in business at the same old cold-war propaganda stand, ready with another thick slice for all comers, especially the U.S. Ignoring the fact that Russia had just completed a smashing series of nuclear tests, Khrushchev's government protested the U.S. tests scheduled for April through August in the Marshall Islands...
...NATIONAL AFFAIRS Editor Max Ways and London Bureau Chief André Laguerre. A strong bond between them is their fond devotion to the ancient, if somewhat occult, science of handicapping. Ways regards Laguerre as the sage of Paris' Longchamp and London's Ascot, while Laguerre considers Ways nonpareil when it comes to picking them at New York's Belmont and Miami's Hialeah. Last week the old friends were getting ready to trade these special fields of endeavor: Laguerre is coming to the U.S. as assistant managing editor of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, and Ways will replace...
...ability: "If I am on my game, nobody can beat me ... The others are coming uphill to me ... I'm the man to beat." A man in his tennis shoes has to believe that, but he has yet to convince his peers that he is the nonpareil...
...Surrey's Jack Hobbs set the record: 197 centuries. England's W. G. Grace scored 126, and Australia's nonpareil, Don Bradman, made...
...were not for nonpareil Ben Hogan, Snead would be the No. I U.S. golfer. His one weakness, which has twice cost him the Open championship, is putting; he tried 18 different putters in 1948. Even so, he has won 73 tournaments since 1937. Last year, leading the money winners for the third time, Snead banked $35,758.83. His P.G.A. victory last week was his third (the others: 1942 and 1949), a mark equaled only by Gene Sarazen and bettered only by the great Walter Hagen. Snead is glum when he loses. Last week he was grinning from...