Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...peanuts was what got Lionel his crack at the 118-lb. title. Winner of 27 out of 29 pro fights and the sixth-ranked bantamweight in the world, Rose was strictly a substitute challenger-for California's No. 1-ranked Jesús Pimentel, who had demanded a bigger share of the pot. Dancing and weaving, easily evading the champion's bull-like charges, Rose raked Harada with sharp jabs, floored him for an eight-count in the ninth round and outpointed him on the cards of the three ring officials, all of whom were Japanese...
...South Boston wasn't the toughest neighborhood in the world, but there were a lot of fights, and since I was a small kid, I figured I'd better discourage people from bothering me," he said. "If I'd been any bigger, I probably would have gotten interested in other sports besides boxing...
...must end it [the North Vietnamese aggression] without producing a bigger war; I reject the arguments of some to use nuclear weapons. But we must also end it without producing another war. Many of the peace proposals could end the war, but they would produce another war--possibly in Asia or in other areas; this would strengthen the hawks in Red China and the Soviet Union...
Undaunted, the Diners' Club is now broadening the competition with its bigger rival by moving directly into the travel business itself...
...spent a couple of years setting up his own investment outfit. Then he got an offer to head Cities Service, a company dominated by Oklahoma oilmen who, understandably, wanted to make their big corporation bigger. Burns took on the job, and started out to do what he thought the oilmen wanted. He tried to diversify Cities Service, acquired Fesco, Inc., a maker of molded-plastic housewares, and agreed to acquire, pending stockholder approval, Akron Equipment Co., a tire-mold manufacturer. So far so good. But Burns had also urged that Cities Service buy out Hugoton Production Co., a Kansas-based...