Word: peerless
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Dates: during 1981-1981
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Leonard's victory now confirms him as a remarkable champion. He is a strange mix for a fighter, a combination of peerless skills and yearnings to transcend the brutal arena in which he displays them. When he returned from Montreal in 1976, he vowed not to be a professional fighter, preferring to go to college. But the endorsements that he had hoped would support him after his ballyhooed triumph never materialized-white athletes end up on Wheaties boxes, he bitterly asserted, blacks do not. So he took to the ring. For years, he counted his money and waited...
...astonishing complexity of the craft's design, in its peerless performance certainly in the cool performance of its astronauts-possessors of what Tom Wolfe calls "the right stuff"-Columbia was a much needed reaffirmation of U.S. technological prowess. It came at a moment when many Americans, and much of the world as well, were questioning that very capability. The doubts grew out of a succession of U.S. setbacks: from the defeat in Viet Nam to the downed rescue helicopters in the Iranian desert, from the debacle of Three Mile Island to Detroit's apparent defenselessness against the onslaught...
Peter Sellers, 54, peerless English master of mirth, a man of many faces who slipped easily into parts as diverse as the crazed Dr. Strangelove, the bumbling Inspector Clouseau of Pink Panther fame and the brilliantly bland gardener turned presidential adviser in Being There...