Word: bout
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...search, as sargents-at-arms, Committee members, attorneys, and delegates hunted for him; when all proved fruitless, the case opened anyway. Soon, however, looking more frightened than ever, Mr. Julia appeared, apparently from the recesses of the hotel lavatory where, some said, he had been struggling with a bout of nervous diarrhea...
...Honolulu Middleweight Carl ("Bobo") Olson, a technical knockout, after six rounds of a scheduled ten-round bout with The Bronx's badly outclassed Gene Hairston; in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. At ringside: Middleweight Champion Sugar Ray Robinson, displaying a surgically rebuilt nose and a lack of interest in a future match with Olson, who is the probable heir to Robinson's crown-if Sugar Ray retires without defending...
...some blunt sequences, shot in & around actual Los Angeles locations, of discrimination against Mexican-Americans in drive-in restaurants, bars and skating rinks. Lalo Rios as the boy, Rita Moreno as his girl and Gerald Mohr as a prizefight manager play their parts naturally. The Ring is no main bout, but it is a thoroughly satisfactory preliminary...
...Duke of Windsor, after a bout of stomach trouble in Italy (with diagnoses ranging from gastroenteritis to ulcers), arrived in Paris with another ailment: an attack of lumbago so severe that the duchess and a plainclothesman had to help him off the train and into a waiting limousine, where he sat beside the chauffeur to get more leg room...
Each morning the 38 students get a stiff bout of lectures. They not only master menus ("What kind of pie is this 'assorted'?" asked one student), but also timetables, train tickets, how to tip, how to type. They learn to foxtrot, travel by bus, use a Bendix and electric iron...