Word: runner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...task is nothing short of tremendous. Last fall, in his first season here, he fashioned a team which lost only to Springfield (his alma mater and defending national champion) and Navy, Harvard's only Ivy League loss. The 1948 team finished second to Cornell in the Ivy League and runner-up to Connecticut in the New England circuit...
...election in November. An ex-salesman for the Burroughs Adding Machine Co., Cobo was called in to straighten out the city's rickety finances in 1933, for the past 16 years has been quietly building up a loyal following among Detroit's foreign-born groups. The runner-up, and Cobo's November rival: Harvard-trained Council President George Edwards, 35, a onetime organizer for the C.I.O.'s Auto Workers. Edwards will buck a tough precedent in November: a U.A.W. candidate has yet to win a Detroit mayoralty election...
...years of pursuing the fast buck around the national capital, weedy Little John Maragon never seemed to be getting anywhere. He was an anxious glad-hander of big men, a hanger-on at the White House, a willing errand-runner and a great fellow for cadging free rides in official trains and limousines. But he lived in a middlebrow house in the suburbs, moaned about the cost of groceries, and looked like a part-time shoe clerk. Most of the capital was inclined to agree when his fellow countryman, Greek-born Promoter William G. Helis, said...
...past two years, CBS has been the front runner in the Color TV sweepstakes. Only two weeks ago, Government bigwigs popped their eyes at a CBS color demonstration in Washington. Cried Colorado's Senator Ed Johnson: "No one who sees color is ever going to be satisfied with ordinary . . . television again...
...just about shot. I'll have to do something about it or go nuts." He nearly did one day last week when his Red Sox, trailing the Yankees 3-2 in the ninth, got a hit with the bases loaded and failed to score a run. Base-runner John Pesky began a dash for the plate, decided to go back and tag-up at third in case the ball was caught, fell down, got thrown out at the plate. Next day, by way of saving McCarthy's sanity, the Sox launched a seven-game winning streak...