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Word: armlocked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1934-1934
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Twenty minutes after the bout began, Londos applied his favorite hold, a Japanese armlock. Browning broke it, retaliated with the "airplane scissors" which he learned by wrapping his legs around a flour barrel on his Indiana farm. Planning to become a professional fisticuffer when he ends his career as wrestler, Browning cuffed Londos on the nose. Londos whacked his opponent on the ear, adroitly tripped him, twisted his foot in a toe hold. Wrestling bouts continue un til one contestant or the other is too tired or too dazed to function normally. After an hour and ten minutes, Londos last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Londos v. Browning | 7/2/1934 | See Source »

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