Word: blowings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...smoky, brightly-lit boxing ring. Referee Arthur Donovan mumbled orders in the centre of the ring, the fighters moved back to their corners, and the bell clanged. Both came out in a crouch, eyed each other for a moment. Then Thomas cracked Schmeling with a tentative left, first blow of an uncommonly bloody fight...
...obvious that an 18-month layoff had rusted Schmeling. He usually is a slow starter, but his timing was unusually poor as Thomas, flailing awkwardly with his right hand sometimes ahead of his left, tapped him at will and won the round. In the second, Thomas landed a low blow and was penalized the round, but it did not belong to him anyway. Schmeling had cut his nose...
...pioneer wagon had reached a little bridge just outside the town, and the Warreners were on hand in large numbers. Chief Bull struck the first blow. Leaping on one of the oxen, he tore at the harness traces. The driver of the wagon lashed out with his horse whip, and Bull took a called strike...
...disreputable hotel in the steamy coast town of Acapulco. As he is driving to Acapulco with the owlish, observant Juana, a storm drives them into one of Mexico's closed churches, where Howard builds a fire, cooks meals, despite Juana's fears of sacrilege. While the candles blow out, thunder rolls and lightning flashes, Howard sings, attacks the girl after she has ridiculed him. She tries to kill him. For some reason unknown to him Howard discovers that his voice has returned...
When tragedy comes to the German grand ducal House of Hesse it strikes with all its fateful weight. First great blow to the ancient German family was the discovery that it had contributed to the spread of the dread blood disease, hemophilia. Marriage of two princes of Hesse to Princess Beatrice, Princess Alice, daughters of England's Queen Victoria, carried this curse to the blood of the imperial Russian and royal Spanish families. Princess Alice married Prince Louis of Hesse and was the mother of Alexandra, last Empress of Russia, who in turn transmitted hemophilia to her only...