Word: contested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Admitted that his reducing contest with Military Aide Harry Vaughan and Brigadier General Wallace Graham (TIME, Nov. 28) had ended in a draw: no one had lost any weight...
Soon Joe Foss, who had left the Marines to become a lieutenant colonel in the Air National Guard, was flying all over the state acting as master of ceremonies for South Dakota's Miss America contest, dedicating baseball fields and leading airmen in a fancy repertoire of acrobatics. To questions about the future he bluntly replied: "I don't know myself what I'm going to do in 1950, but take a look at those in office...
...brisk November morning, Joe York, a middle-aged dairy farmer in Scurry County, Tex., shoved aside his patched blue jeans and scuffed working boots and put on his fanciest rancher's garb. Until then, the biggest day in Joe York's life had been a calf-roping contest in which he won $150. Now he was after a far bigger prize...
...love Japan: the fear that all her efforts are being directed, with desperate heroism, only to prepare the land for the sojourn of peoples older by centuries in commercial experience . . . that her admirable army and her heroic navy may be doomed to make their last sacrifices in hopeless contest against some combination of greedy states...
...freshman match was one-sided, with the Crimson taking all but one contest in straight sets. In the one closely fought '53 match, it was the MIT player who came from behind to tie the Crimson man before losing in the fifth...