Word: contests
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...short stories, and countless essays. He was a major contender for the 1968 Nobel Prize for Literature that went to his countryman. Novelist Yasunari Kawabata. He sang on the stage, produced, directed and acted in movies. Often called "Japan's Hemingway" because of his love for physical contest and the outdoor life, he lifted weights and became proficient at karate and kendo, the ancient swordfighting game once practiced by the samurai warriors. He was a perfectionist, a man of overriding obsessions. One of these obsessions was with his own death...
...hero is a poor Mexican-American kid. He delivers newspapers to help support his parents, both of whom are blind. At age 14, he enters a schoolboy contest, and, while officials look on in disbelief, he flips a football 63 yds. He soon becomes a star high school quarterback, rushing from practice each day to work long hours as a gas-station attendant and grocery-store clerk. A scout from a big college watches the hero passing and shouts: "Lookit the ball! Lookit where the ball is! Right on the chest every time!" The hero wins a scholarship...
WHEN I came home one summer, I wandered by the baby contest that was being held at the Band-shell, my town's coquina-rock version of the Hollywood Bowl by the Atlantic Ocean. There, costumed boys and girls two and three years old were given their first taste of the footlights, the heady liquor of performing for an audience. The three winners in the boys' division that year were dressed as an Indian, a cowboy, and the last wore a minutely detailed copy of a Special Forces uniform. A sweating man in tuxedo lined the three up in front...
...little children, about the same age as those in the baby contest, are strapped in tightly and stare out at the fluorescent fuzz around them; they tend to look very stolid and serious in their little pods, like their grandparents out for a 15 m.p.h. procession to a movie or a drive-in church. After perhaps a dozen revolutions, one set of parents plucks their beloved bundle from a pod proudly emblazoned with a screaming, claws-out eagle, the stars and stripes, and the words "Cong Killer" on the side-and stuffs a thick wad of pink cotton candy...
...contest was marked by numerous Dartmouth penalties. Four of Harvard's goals came on power plays, but the Crimson missed many other opportunities, including two two-man advantages. Flaring tempers throughout the game produced two outright fights and a hard-hitting contest...