Word: bout
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stripped to the waist preparing for a dawn's death, they still meet all the romance of the ancient sport in the person for fencing coach Edo Marion. Tall, with dark complexion and graying hair, he is poised and energetic, and as enthusiastic during instructions as in a championship bout...
...Marion, fencing is not only a sport, but a way of living. Watching him a bout, one sees a brief summary of his personality. Whether fencing or walking, he is fast and confident. He combines aggressiveness and determination with patience and consideration. At times explosive, he is always imaginative...
...huge chain or lashes the air with a switch in menacing disbelief. Sometimes he even comes equipped with a large basket in which to carry off young people whose stories clearly won't wash. However virtuous Junior's conduct during the preceding year may have been, a bout with Krampus usually leaves him shattered but determined to improve...
...Suck Me Toe, an' Bambina had three. Sugar Shine, Turtle Dove, an' Stumps. An' Bots an' Bambina wus the best of friends, an' the children who wus half brother an' half sister live like real brother and sister without any talk 'bout half or quarter. They live real splendid together, an' so did they mothers ... in the same sort of feelin' of you belong to me an' I belong to you. An' it went on like that for donkey's years...
...After a bout with cancer, this sportswoman made a comeback, proved she still had the old stuff...