Word: bout
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...father-in-law's house with a broken hand. "Smith asked me if I was afraid of him," he explained. "I told him I wasn't afraid of anybody. Then it started." Conn went back to camp with his hand in a cast, his face scratched, his bout with Louis postponed at least until September...
Alvin York, a conscientious objector ("War's ag'in the Book"), changed his mind after a heart-to-heart talk with his superior officer and a plodding, nightlong bout with U.S. history. His feat in France that brought him a Congressional Medal of Honor is still a nonpareil: singlehanded he killed 20 German soldiers, captured 132 more with a squad of seven...
With Coach Lamar in his corner, Johnny Bullitt gave Sauer a decisive and brilliant whipping, taking the bout in the third round on a technical knockout with his opponent reeling on the ropes. Except for the second period, during which Sauer rallied and held a slight edge, Bullitt consistently out-boxed him and handed out terrific punishment with a left jab to the body, right cross to the head, and final left hook routine...
Home to the U.S. this week came Admiral Thomas Charles Hart, who commanded the Allied Fleet in the far Pacific until mid-February. Healthy but worn after a bout of food poisoning, 64-year-old Admiral Hart headed for Washington, then for his farm at Sharon, Conn, "to get a little sleep." He said that he was not really sick; he was just very tired when he asked to be relieved of his command...
Probably the best bout of the evening was the finals in the 165-pound class between George Work and Ed Richardson. They both took a severe beating and when the bell rang in the last round neither man could move his arms...