Word: competitor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Behind the posture of serenity, his friends and backers are convinced, Senator Symington burns with a longing for the White House every bit as intense as Senator Kennedy's. In everything he ever took up, whether business, politics, tennis, golf or bridge, Stu Symington has been a fierce competitor-keeping his surface unruffled but seething underneath with a wild hatred of defeat. "If Stuart were playing marbles with a six-year-old," says a St. Louis lawyer who has known Symington for many years and admires him intensely, "victory would still be a matter of life or death...
Smarter than the cops, craftier than the crooks, too quick to be caught and domesticated by the classiest doll, TV's private detective runs second to only one competitor in the race for ratings. So far, in a season riddled with old scandals and new specials, the Cowpoke is still top draw, but the Eye has impressive fire power, and by year's end he may well be top gun. The TV tally sheet already lists 62 shows (network and syndicated) devoted to some variation of Cops & Robbers. Police detectives practice their profession on the networks only...
...sharp new drive at West Point and the Air Academy* to plunge bright graduates into the heady whirl of Britain's ancient Oxford University. The Air Academy won its first scholarship, and there were a record five for West Pointt (matched only by Harvard). Recalls one awed civilian competitor, who stepped into the exam ring with them: "They looked like tall glasses of cold milk...
...businesses may be added each year to continue this growth process." The sudden creation of H.S.A., its impressive expansion and ambitious plans have aroused criticism. Established businessmen in the Square have feared the strategic position of H.S.A. in student sales; undergraduate publications, its potential as a competitor for advertising revenue; and other student businesses, its seeming desire to absorb all undergraduate enterprises into itself...
...does not seem likely to figure in today's race, although its leading runner, sophomore Art Freeman, is a competitor with a strong finishing kick. The Terriers are sorely deficient in depth; they will send only five men to the starting line...