Word: winner
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...completely stable from 1964 all the way to 1972. Today Rossignol produces eight principal lines of skis, competitively priced from $50 (for cross-countries) to $230 a pair. Boix-Vives has also sought out the world's best skiers and equipped them with Rossis, including Lise-Marie Morerod, winner of the 1977 World...
Dundee soon discovered just how good his young charge was. The strident gym voice softens, as if remembering something rare and lovely: "Oh, yes, I knew I had a winner. Of all the fighters I've ever known, only he could make the heavy bag sing when he hit it. I used to hear him make it snap like a snare drum every time I came up the stairs...
...white or black. Not even Presidents ruled that long. I'd like that." He grinned wolfishly. "But one must face reality. We all go down eventually. And this makes you sad, but you always have, for the rest of your life, the knowledge that you were a winner to the last. I want to go out a winner. I really...
After a remarkable reign, Muhammad Ali stands whole?old and young, winner and loser?for assessment. Was he really, as he proclaimed from the earliest days, the greatest? Comparing fighters of different eras is a risky enterprise, flawed by changes in boxing rules, training methods, improved diet and medical care. Then there are those shifting subjectives: the accuracy of recollection and loyalty to generations. One expert favors Joe Louis, another Jack Dempsey, voting for the knockout punch that Ali admittedly never had. Rocky Marciano was inelegant, but he could hit and he never lost a fight...
Interest in the conference fluctuated widely from school to school, members of the group said. Mt. Holyoke plans to send 40 to 60 delegates, while only six representatives from Yale plan to attend. The Radcliffe Lesbians selected Olga Broumas, winner of the Yale-Younger-Poets award in 1976, as their main speaker, Puscas said. Broumas will recite poetry from her book, "Beginnings of O," a collection of poetry on lesbianism...