Word: outlaster
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from 160 Ibs., to an overblown 170, Middleweight Champion Carl ("Bobo") Olson, 26, was a good little man, ambitious but amenable. One steamy evening last week, 27,431 fans plunked down $206,784 at New York's Polo Grounds to learn whether Challenger Olson, no knockout specialist, could outlast 2-to-1 Favorite Moore. After 19 hectic years in the ring, 143 professional bouts, Moore had already designated (in paid newspaper ads) his target for Bout No. 145: Heavyweight Champion Rocky Marciano...
Playing five singles, Fischer gained the Crimson's only individual victory, beating Warren Berry 6-2, 9-7, and then teamed with Maynard Canfield in third doubles, to outlast Gene Goe and Berry, 6-2, 4-6, 6-3. Fischer played excellent tennis, consistently hitting sharp volleys and accurate passing shots...
...yield to no one in admiration of Renoir and actually have 29 of his works, of all periods, presently hanging. But paintings and painters do gradually use up and outlast their popularity ... In 1950 we here accepted the gift of Picasso's Nude Woman (1910), closely equivalent to the Tate's purchase. A 57th Street dealer tells us the going price for it would be $25,000, if anything equivalent were attainable−so a price of, say, $12,500 for the Tate Picasso would scarcely be at an inflated price...
...letter-deep. Old Pro India had always considered Political Amateur Mitchell naive and impractical. When Mitchell set out to "integrate" the women's division into the general national committee organization, India was sure that he was trying to get rid of her. At first, she thought she could outlast him. But Amateur Mitchell turned out to have considerable staying powers of his own. After he consolidated his position and erased the last traces of the women's division at the Democrats' big rally in Chicago last month, she decided she would have...
Even Eternal Rome was beginning to wonder if it was eternal enough to outlast the filibuster in Italy's parliament. For 37 days the Communists had hog-tied the Chamber of Deputies with their desperate war against Premier Alcide de Gasperi's electoral reform bill...