Word: armes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Human After All. Most of the fans and Referee Ruby Goldstein had no doubt about it. They gave the decision to Jersey Joe. But two judges voted the other way. As his arm was raised in victory, Joe Louis, a forlorn figure, got booed for the first time in his long ring career. The cheers were for Jersey Joe. The fact is that Walcott probably deserved the decision-even if no one deserved to win a world's heavyweight championship by riding a bicycle the last round. Louis, some $190,000 richer and still champion despite his weary legs...
...right arm during the war, Schless had the muscles of his upper arm and shoulder blown away, but regained muscular control except for movements above his head. Although he wrestled in a Varsity meet against M.I.T. last year, team doctors felt that further intercollegiate competition might irreparably damage his motion...
When I opened the door, there was Sedgwick, and was he ever a sight with sore eyes. Matter of fact, he had them both bandaged so he could hardly see. There was a gentleman with a chauffeur's cap and a dour expression leading my poor roommate by the arm...
...running board of his car to shout insults. Sam's chilly blue eyes never flickered. He crossed up the fans again when he peddled off the great Dizzy Dean at the height of Dizzy's fame, for $185,000 (the Cubs bought a pitcher with a bad arm). Sam Breadon sold baseball heroes as he also sold Pierce-Arrows, and the fertile Cardinal "farm system" which Vice President Branch Rickey built for him produced new-model heroes who won nine National League pennants. St. Louis thought of Sam as a skinflint horse-trader...
With some pain, the Duke remembered a childhood nurse who took him downstairs at teatime to see his parents, the future George V and Mary. "Before taking me into the drawing room, this dreadful 'Nanny' would pinch and twist my arm-why, no one knew, unless it was to demonstrate, according to some perverse reasoning, that her power over me was greater than theirs." Eventually the cruel Nanny was caught at it, and fired...