Word: bout
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, despite a setback from a bout of pneumonia, George Congrave was able to feed himself with a special knife-and-fork combination that enabled him both to cut and pick up meat with his left hand. He was using that hand to print simple messages-his name and address, the word "mother" ("stepfather" was too much for him) and a comment on the hospital: "Here it is nice." His spoken vocabulary was limited to "Yes," "No," "Hi Mom" and "Thanks," but the speech therapist was confident that it would soon grow...
...drawing power-just before they began to wane. Buick's big-league TV advertising suffered from the failures of Milton Berle, Joe E. Brown, Jackie Gleason. Kudner topped off its poor TV performance last August, when a closing Buick commercial was injected into the Floyd Patterson-Hurricane Jackson bout just as the referee stopped the fight and before Patterson could be declared winner. After complaints from hundreds of watchers, Ragsdale, himself a boxing fan, apologized for "the inept handling and bad timing of the commercial...
...Brown made his third successful defense of the world lightweight title last night by stopping challenger Joey Lopez in the 13th round of their Chicago Stadium bout...
...idolized him, and he accepted their protective adoration as a permanent fixture of his life. When his foster sister died, Verlaine went to pieces, changed from a gaily dressed, monocled dandy into a shabby, unshaven lout. This made him feel remorseful, and, rushing into a church after an absinthe bout, he hammered on the confessional box and shouted: "I must confess! I must receive absolution...
When the shiny horn tootled First Call, only three thoroughbreds trotted to the post: that sprinting fool, Bold Ruler, back in shape after a bout with heart trouble; the handsome bay, Round Table, riding high on an eleven-straight winning string; and the controversial colt, Gallant Man, who lost the Derby by a dirty nose. Between them they had already earned nearly $1,500,000; now they were after a piddling $82,350. But the money didn't matter. The winner of last week's race at New Jersey's Garden State track would be America...