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Word: bout (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Prizefighters who retire before their brains get scrambled almost always wind up with another occupational characteristic : total recall. They can remember every minute of every fight-the amateur bouts when the gold medal or the brass watch was hocked for the price of a hot meal, the tank-town prelims, the main events when they got their turns on the big time. Ex-Middleweight Champion Rocky Graziano does even better. In his autobiography, Somebody Up There Likes Me (Simon & Schuster; $3.95), written with the help of Newsman Rowland Barber, Rocky even recalls the eye-gouging, gut-punching details...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Education of Rocky | 3/14/1955 | See Source »

...consolation bout, Culbert met Nays Zabrychi, who had pinned him in a previous match applied the reverse cradle, and pinned him in 1:01, fastest time of the tournament...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wrestling Squad Takes 8th Place In Eastern Bouts | 3/14/1955 | See Source »

...Keating (123), Mike Holmes (137) Dave Jordan (147) Len Miller (157), Casper Cronk (167), and Unlimited Pete Morrison lost his preliminary bout...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wrestling Squad Takes 8th Place In Eastern Bouts | 3/14/1955 | See Source »

Other Crimson entries are less strong. Len Miller (157) is winless and sophomore Casper Cronk (167) lost his only bout in Saturday's Yale match. Mike Holmes will replace Andrews at 130, and sophomore Dave Jordan will wrestle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Badly Weakened Wrestling Squad Enters Easterns | 3/11/1955 | See Source »

...match, Leverett's pile-driving Jack Canning won the quickest bout of the night as he KO'd Dave Hoffman of Lowell in the first 40 seconds of round...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dunster Boxers Top Bunnies, 16-13 To Win Inter-House Tourney Title | 3/11/1955 | See Source »

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