Word: bout
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boxing (Fri. 10 p.m., ABC). Lightweight title bout between Champ Bob Montgomery and Challenger Allie Stolz...
...Brady had never had a lesson, and her work showed it. But the best of it possessed an effective if awkward directness. Au Bout on d'Or (see cut) looked static at first glance, but it had just the sexy-sweet, penny-arcade nostalgia she was trying for: the memory of summer nights when it is too hot to pull the shades and the city turns into a bright hive of private worlds...
...vaccine for 1,000,000 persons was promised, planes chartered to speed chlorine for Canton's polluted water system. Unless the anti-epidemic supplies arrived promptly, Herrington estimated that more than 1,000 Cantonese would die of cholera in the next few weeks. It was not his first bout with cholera. Last summer, while surgeon for the U.S. Embassy in Chungking, he had helped to stop a cholera epidemic in China's temporary capital...
From an underwater sound laboratory located in Hemingway Gymnassium during the war, scientists helped fight the successful battle against the German U-bout. University officials revealed this week, as the Navy took the wraps off another of its secret weapons "sonar," which stands for sound, navigation, and ranging...
...reputation was crisscrossed with contradictions. Though he shunned public entertainment, he liked to give lavish drinking parties. In Happy Valley, near Chungking, site of his secret headquarters, he toasted visitors with innumerable kam pels. He could down 18 Chinese wine cups filled with brandy in an evening's bout. He was hard and he was tender. He personally succored victims of Jap atrocities, established orphanages for Chinese waifs. For Communists and fellow travelers, he maintained concentration camps. He was an honest man, scorning the traditional "squeeze." Once he discovered a close friend's malfeasance, invited him to dinner...