Word: battlers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With or without a shotgun, Pearl deserves the title. In her 15 years as superintendent, she has built a reputation as the most adroit political battler for education that Washington has ever known. So adroit has she become, in fact, that many a Democrat had hopes that she would run for governor next fall. It would have been a spectacular race, for even the Republican hopeful, Attorney General Don Eastvold, admitted: "She'd be a formidable opponent." This week, however, Pearl announced that she had only one office in mind. She intended to seek re-election to the post...
...gave the season's best starring performance, whether spitting an opponent on his sword or agonizing for love of Roxane, who, as played by Britain's enchanting Claire Bloom, seemed well worth it. Playwrights '56 struck a more sombre note with Ernest Hemingway's The Battler, whose familiar plot (a heavyweight champion is broken by success) was well-served by Paul Newman as the crazed, broken-faced pug, and Dewey Martin as a young runaway who finds the world both terrible and tender...
Even at 61, the broken-nosed, greying little battler was more than a match for most men. It took two husky hospital attendants to handle him when they decided to get him under control. He got a chestful of broken ribs during the mauling, but he recovered quickly enough. He was used to beatings. It was a long series of beatings that had put Adolph ("Ad") Wolgast into the psychopathic ward of California's Stockton State Hospital in the first place. For eleven years the "Michigan Wildcat" had held his own in the savage battles of the pre-World...
Ralph "Tiger" Jones, unranked battler from Yonkers, N.Y., banged a unanimous 10-round decision over former middle-weight champion Sugar Ray Robinson at the Chicago Stadium last night...
...Tokyo, Pascual Perez, a bull-necked little (107 3/4 Ibs.) battler from Argentina, swarmed all over Japan's Yoshio Shirai for 15 rounds and won the world's flyweight championship...