Word: competitor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gravelly pavement destroyed many of the steel skis. Repairs were all but impossible in the sub-zero weather, since the flesh of the snowmobilers' hands tended to freeze to the metal of their machines. Several snow mobiles were blown off the road and down steep embankments. One competitor suffered a broken pelvis when he lost control and veered into a bridge abutment. Frostbite claimed dozens more. By the end of the first day the field had been reduced...
...breath-catchingly funny, surrealistic in tone and style and hair-trigger fast in pace. All this it owes to Director Alan Arkin. He shows such ready mas tery of comic tempo and zany action that Mike Nichols and Gene Saks might as well know that they have a competitor on their hands...
...Lions do have a couple of swimmers worthy of mention. Their most outstanding competitor is sophomore Homer Lane, who has been winning regularly in the freestyle events at 50 and 100 yards. Lane was the first Lion ever to break 50.0 seconds in the 100 free, and is considered the most promising swimmer in many decades...
Control Data filed suit partly because it became convinced that the Justice Department would not act against IBM. As expected, IBM vowed to "vigorously defend" itself against the charges brought by what it called its "spectacularly successful competitor." It said that the industry, far from being noncompetitive, includes some of the country's most powerful companies.* Then too, the history of Control Data, which was started by Norris only eleven years ago, demonstrates that IBM competitors can succeed. In about a decade, IBM noted, Control Data's assets have grown from less than...
Probably the easiest Crimson triumph was recorded by Dick Eisenberg, who was the only competitor in the one meter dive. Eisenberg performed well, nonetheless...