Word: bout
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good paydays. I went down to Texas to fight that kid. Roy Harris, that's his name. It was the first mixed bout in Texas. I knew I was going to lose. I was fighting a white boy, and no colored man is going to beat a white boy in Texas. I hit him and he went down, and I thought, 'Why, this boy can't fight...
According to Warsaw, Malenkov, Molotov and Kaganovich all spoke during the debate, but on the next-to-last day, seeing the tide turning against them, all joined abjectly in a bout of selfcriticism. To get his unanimous vote of condemnation against them, Khrushchev was reported to have promised his crony Bulganin that sanctions would not be imposed on the four men: i.e., their lives would be spared. If Khrushchev so promised, would he keep that promise...
...just thank God that I got in the punch," said the recrowned champion in the dressing room. "He got the message." He had barely showered before the promoters were guessing that an outdoor bout this summer between Robinson and Carmen Basilio, the free-swinging welterweight titleholder, would gross $1,000,000. Debonairly ignoring three Internal Revenue Service men who lurked in a nearby showerstall after attaching $23,000 of his $67,000 purse, Robinson said that he was more than ready to slug with Basilio. Said the champ: "Fighting's my business...
...three-weapon (foil, épée and saber) Intercollegiate Fencing Association championship in The Bronx was still undecided after 593 bouts. In the 594th and final bout of the tournament, Navy's Larry Polk won a slashing saber victory over Columbia's Joe Bloom (5-4), saved the team title for the Middies...
Characteristic Candor. Early this year, unable to shake off the aftereffects of a bout with flu, Evarts Graham went for a checkup to Washington University's Barnes Hospital, where he had so long wielded the scalpel. X rays showed lung cancer, and by the harshest of ironies it was in both lungs, so that his own brilliant operation, now standard in better hospitals around the world, could not save him. Nitrogen mustard, which sometimes serves as a life-prolonging palliative in such cases, proved to be of little help; the cancer had already spread too far. Last week, just...