Word: winner
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...marathon record by nearly three minutes is no small feat--surely Joan Benoit deserved more than a sub-headline and just two paragraphs buried in the middle of your story. A few personal quotes or some biographical details about her, as you had for Greg Meyer, the men's winner, would have made your article more complete. I hope in the future your sports department will be more professionally objective in coverage of women's athletics. Sara G. Shields...
GREG MEYER, winner (no Harvard affiliation, at a post-race news conference). "The race--it was survival...
Shortly thereafter Chang took matters into his own hands. One Chang ace and another service winner opened the game, 11-8. Two Tiger time-outs proved futile as Twite defended one shot and pasted two of his salvos to the floor to force a 15-8 first-game conclusion...
...LETTERS OF HENRY ADAMS Edited by J.C. Levenson, Ernest Samuels, Charles Vandersee, Viola Hopkins Winner; Belknap Press; 3 volumes...
Shortly after 4 p.m., the final tallies from the straw poll were announced, and the area was largely deserted. A pack of reporters rushed by to catch a press conference by representatives of former Vice President Walter F. Mondale--the winner of the non-binding vote. The jubilant chants of the organized labor delegates from the convention floor could be heard, as that bloc celebrated its victory in getting one-fourth of the delegates to vote for "jobs" instead of a candidate. In the middle of the rotunda, about 20 supporters of Sen. Alan Cranston (D-Calif.) hugged and kissed...