Word: challengee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spring hit the Lampoon yesterday afternoon, and by nightfall Lampy found himself with a full-blown beauty contest on his hands, when Billy Rose wired acceptance to the funny magazine's challenge to put up or shut up on his proposition that beautiful girls don't go to college.
Robin Worthington '47, Chairman of the Conservative League, last night conditionally accepted, on behalf of his group, the debate challenge extended earlier by the HLU.
But Phil Murray, sensing a challenge to his control of C.I.O., made a speech to his loyal auto workers, deliberately brushed off the shocked and furious Reuther while he saluted the beaming Thomas as "this great big guy for whom I have a distinct fondness." Then Murray got out of...
The more she pondered the fate of her native Tyrol, the more Miss Frankie Miller worried. Finally she sat down and wrote Britain's Foreign Minister a letter about it. Instead of mailing the letter, she took it to the New York Times, paid $693 to have it printed...
Challenge Ahead. No single mancertainly no foreigner-could have preserved the victory in China. The Chinese masses passionately wanted what U.S. policy wanted for China: a strong, independent, unified, democratic nation. This intense popular demand restrained Chinese Communist intransigence and gave Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek a chance to...