Word: bout
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...home town Brockton, Mass., retired Heavyweight Boxing Champion Rocky Marciano, 32, never defeated in a professional bout, lay flat on his wrenched back in a hospital. The winner and new champion: Marciano's daughter Mary Ann, 3. As far as Loser Marciano could explain, he had injured his back while engaged with her in a game of catch-in which Mary Ann was the ball...
Republicans were quick to point out that there are two sides to the issue, that the leading Democratic candidates have had their own bouts with illness and the surgeon's knife. In the past four years, Adlai Stevenson had had four stints in hospitals: for removal of a kidney stone a month before the Democratic National Convention in 1952, for treatment and then surgery for a second kidney stone in 1954 (he takes pills in the hope of preventing more stones), for a bout with bronchial pneumonia (five days in the hospital) in 1955. Missouri's U.S. Senator Stuart Symington...
...Boxing (Fri. 10 p.m.. NBC). Heavyweight bout: Floyd Patterson v. Tommy ("Hurricane") Jackson...
...inextinguishable. Pretending to be interested in Italian political squabbles, Author Thayer really saves his most conspicuous talents for scenes that normally have their origin in lecherous fantasy. A drool trickles from the wiseguy, smoking-car prose, and each orgy is dropped with a reluctance that promises another bout in the next chapter. The promise is kept, to the point of bedroom boredom...
...dispose of Joe Louis and ruin the comeback of that puffy remnant of a great champ. Later, he won the title by flattening Heavyweight Champion Joe Walcott in the 13th round, after being knocked down in the third for the first time in his professional life. In a return bout, it took him only one round to stop Jersey...