Word: alie
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Muhammad Ali's eighth round knockout last week of George Foreman was more than a triumph over the former heavyweight champion. It was also a whuppin' of the powers of sports that stripped Ali of his title to repress his conclusions about the world in which sports go on. And it was an especially decisive whuppin' of the U.S. government that wanted him to fight not other boxers, but Vietnamese rebels with whom--as Ali recognized--Americans should have no quarrel...
...festive occasion that was Madison Square Garden in 1971 had become serious business for Ali's legions in 1974. After all, the Man is 32, he did weigh in at 216.7 pounds, ten or so more than he promised...
Jimmy the Greek, word had it, was taking 50 to 1 odds that Ali wouldn't leave the ring alive...
...America reeked of infidels, closed-circuit audiences of the faithful, from the Convention Center back in Ali's old West End neighborhood to Hynes Auditorium in the city where he dropped off his appendix more than a decade ago, rocked uneasily in their chairs...
...work up a dander when the behemoth was sweating himself to death? From there the magic returned, the faith restored, Foreman's end stood at Ali's beck and call. It came quickly, too. In a second or so. Allah's justice is not just and swift retribution. For those in Ali's fold, it took a long time...