Word: bout
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evening's tag-end bout in Manhattan's smoky St. Nicholas Arena, and the fans were paying less attention to the two indifferent welterweights than to the referee. He was Benny Leonard, onetime great lightweight, now a paunchy 51 but still an agile man in the ring. Dancing out of the fighters' way in the first round, he suddenly toppled to the canvas. Tripping over his own feet was something new for Benny Leonard; the fans laughed...
Except for his morning walks, Harry Truman is no exercise-lover. The White House horseshoe court has had so little use that grass now grows around the stakes. But, under orders from Graham, the President swims in the White House pool, has an occasional bout with the exercise board -a slanted contraption into which the President obediently straps his feet for toe-touching exercise...
...speaker was a chipper, chubby French Canadian named Antoine Phileas Coté, a freshman M.P. but an old hand at politics. Over radio station CJBR at Rimouski, Que., Coté said flatly that the Prime Minister, after his severe bout with a cold, looked "old and worn out." "Mr. King," he said, "wants a [Liberal Party] convention before his retirement," so that a successor may be chosen. "I believe that this convention will take place in 1948, probably in Montreal...
...flailing, devastating arm, a plucky Adams House boy named Tommy Bodgett clubbed his way to the University 155-pound class boxing throne last night with a T.K.O. over Somerby Dowat of Lowell House in one minute and 40 seconds of the second round of a three-stanza championship bout in the Indoor Athletic Building...
Shooting his club-like fist unerringly, he downed Dowat early in the second for nine, and boring in inexorably, sent his game but bewildered adversary to the canvas with a streaming nose for another nine-count. Referee Tommy Rawson halted the bout...