Word: blowings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crippled Serbian caught in a foolhardy attempt to blow up a railroad is ironically saved from a firing squad...
Baer lost the fifth round on a foul, the sixth on points. With a rare flash of his old savage form he rocked Braddock with a right to the jaw in the seventh. Then in the eighth round Braddock sent a harmless blow to Baer's chin. And, again going comic, Baer electrified the crowd by staggering about in a circle, then straightening up with a great laugh and repulsing the hopeful challenger...
...assaults, kept brushing aside his extended left, boring in, plodding on, piling up points. As an exhibition of good boxing, the match lacked intrinsic excitement. But the crowd was on its toes right up to the final bell on the chance that Baer might somehow suddenly land the dread blow which would cut down the striving underdog. But Max Baer, having frittered away his early chances, never did. When the referee and judges compared scorecards, consensus was that Baer had taken six rounds, Braddock eight...
...plot against his life, the third reported in two months, was discovered. At the Quezon home near Baguio, the summer capital, whither the would-be President will hasten as soon as he reaches Manila, there were unearthed eleven cases of dynamite stolen from a construction camp, enough to blow him far beyond reach of any earthly honors...
...headlines suggested that not even this murder trail could be too cold for his keen, Sherlocking nose. Sniffed he: "I should say this man was killed about 1885 and was at that time about 55 years old. There are certain peculiar marks where the skull was indented by a blow which may prove significant...