Word: winner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...painting of grapes, birds flew down to peck at them. What the anecdotists seldom added is that Zeuxis' rival won the contest, for when the judges turned to unveil his painting, they were stunned to discover that the veil itself was the painting and declared him the winner because he had fooled the judges, while Zeuxis had fooled only birds...
...freshman one-mile relay team--composed of John Dugan, Tom Downer, Roy Shaw, and Keith Colburn--was Harvard's only winner in the K of C's. The same four runners stand a good chance in the BAA meet Saturday...
...couldn't even lift her arm," recalls her coach, Verne Anderson, "but we couldn't keep her out of the giant slalom, so the doctor shot her full of Novocain, and I taped her ski pole to her glove." Nancy finished fourth, only 2.7 sec. behind Winner Marielle Goitschel...
...upset by beating Harvard at its strongest positions -- at the top. The Crimson won only one of the top five matches. Jose Gonzalez, at number three, won over Navy's A. Cowin, 3-1, and over Penn's Richie Cohen, 3-0, to be Harvard's sole double winner...
...Powell and Corinne Huff, a Negro beauty-contest winner, whom he had put on his committee payroll at $19,200 a year, took "many airline flights" that were charged to the taxpayers under assumed names...