Word: peerlessly
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...very sad," I said, "but he was no Peerless Leader...
...last full day of the Olympic Games dawned with Russia's athletes still in the lead. Their team margin over the U.S., heavily beefed by their peerless women athletes, had dwindled to a shaky 24½ points-but it was still a lead, and the U.S. team knew it was facing the day of decision...
...Tulare (pop. 14,000), Calif., probably the only town in the U.S. where the decathlon is the most popular after-school pastime, Coach Dean is guilty of understatement. In Tulare (pronounced to Larry), Bob Mathias is rated, quite simply, as the greatest athlete in history-a sort of peerless combination of Jack Armstrong, Frank Merriwell and Gene Tunney. Says one admiring Tularean: "No matter who you are, you've got to like him if you've seen him the way we have. If you were a mother or father, Bob's the kind...
During his reign in the '20s and '30s, Prince Mike was sometimes broke enough to sleep on park benches, but often as not he was to be found weekending with the very rich on Long Island or at Newport, a majestic little tramp, a peerless raconteur, an engaging and enigmatic character who read a great deal, played excellent chess and, when sober, was a perfect gentleman...
...only magazine noting the passing of Major General Robert H. Soule. To most Americans he was just another "brasshat," but to the 18,000 officers and men who served under him the loss was great. "Shorty" Soule contributed more to our Korean campaign than the general public realizes. His peerless leadership at Hungnam was the difference between a successful operation and disaster. He wholeheartedly gave his talents-and he gave his life. In many different parts of the world today, you've made 18,000 new friends. GLENN C. COWART Lieutenant, U.S.A. New Orleans...