Word: bout
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...West Branch has listened to old Newt Butler tell the same story-how he licked Herbie Hoover in a scrap at the swimming hole. Last week, as ex-President Herbert Clark Hoover returned to West Branch to celebrate his 74th birthday, Newt reminded his old schoolmate of the bout. Hoover just grinned...
...effect is the Sundance Kid (Robert Ryan, a thoroughly hissable villain). He kills a good Indian in cold blood, murders a reformed she-bandit named Cheyenne (Anne Jeffreys) when he can't persuade her to switch back into banditry, and finally meets his match in a protracted barefisted bout with the U.S. marshal (Randolph Scott) after shooting it out unsuccessfully in a lonely building. The locale: the boom town of Guthrie, and the ghost town of Braxton, just before & after the 1889 land rush into Oklahoma Territory...
Some thought it all started when the Clark Poultry Farms at Middleboro had a bout with coccidiosis (poultry disease) six weeks ago. The Clarks, father & son, tried the medicines they knew, but still their chickens died. At last they called on a dark, popeyed man named John Brown, who lived nearby. He had, said rumor, a mysterious something, vaguely connected with atomic energy and called "the master cell," that could work scientific wonders...
...this year's election Joe had three of his most durable foes in the ring with him at the same time. But Joe had trained for this bout by persistently pleading with the men in the ships to get rid of the Commies once & for all. When the votes were counted this week, tattooed Joe had a triple knockout. Badly beaten were Vice President Howard McKenzie and onetime Vice President Frederick ("Blackie") Myers, both Communists; and Ferdinand Christopher Smith, national secretary, a Jamaican Negro whom the Government is trying to deport as a Communist (TIME...
Battling Nelson, the Durable Dane, lightweight champion from 1908 to 1910, conqueror of Young Corbett and Joe Gans in boxing's palmy days, shuffled out of Cook County Hospital, Chicago, after a five-day bout with pneumonia, back to his job as a mail clerk...