Word: bout
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hardly able to breathe, he fought back gamely. Fight fans who had doubted Charles's courage saw him stand up to every punch in the book. For the first time in years, a heavyweight bout looked like the fist fight the crowd expected...
Oder-Neisse line. In return, he got a congratulatory telegram from Vishinsky, two villas, a ration of 15 bottles of schnapps and 350 U.S. cigarettes monthly, and two mistresses. Every Thursday he enjoyed an all-night vodka bout with Russian Political Chief Vladimir Semenov. "What can happen to me?" he used to say. "If the Russians stay on top, I'll stay on top. If the Americans win, I'll just be taken to a camp and go on smoking Chesterfields...
...Sinatra (No.1: Cinemugger Mickey Rooney; No. 2: Bandleader Artie Shaw). Though well on her way to challenging the marriage records of such Hollywood veterans as Arline Judge (six husbands) and Hedy Lamarr (only five), Ava seemed momentarily weary. Just back from Italy, she was on the mend after a bout with two kidney stones. Nor had she got a warm welcome from her studio, which last week suspended her for stalling at playing the lead in Love Me or Leave Me, the film biography of Singer Ruth Etting...
...summer of one's senior year is traditionally a time for a last fleeting bout of irresponsibility before Entering the Great World That Lies Before You. The members of the class of 1929 took off for a summer in Europe or a season of sailing with all the seriousness of a group of children setting out on a picnic. For, the world of June, 1929 was, if not an oyster, at least a picnic, a beautifully tranquil, world in which happy boys and girls romped under a gentle sun while the stock market rose in an always ascending curve...
...suggest to Mr. Jenkins that he use the boar as his symbol in his coming bout with Senator Kefauver, who uses a coon...