Word: bout
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With captain Jim Shue unexpectedly playing at center forward after a bout with the flu, the Crimson line was even stronger than expected. Shue, who was supposed to rest until at least today, provided much of the drive that harried Tufts backs the second half. The Crimson captain should develop into a fine playmaker in a few games' time...
Sugar Ray came down to his lakeside training camp trailing a drab crew-a couple of beefy sparring partners and a brace of trainers, all solemn and eager to pound the champ into proper shape for next week's bout with Challenger Carmen Basilio. Only the boss himself seemed to be a hangover from the high old times when he traveled with a clowning dwarf, a personal barber, his private golf pro and the one man a boxer needs least of all: a bodyguard...
wrestling bout or fight Switch off that darned old radio...
Says Althea's father: "I didn't know nothin' about tennis, and that's all she was interested in. I got her some boxing gloves once," he adds wistfully. "I wanted her to be a lady boxer." Althea almost flattened her father in a practice bout, then hung up her gloves. But ever since, she has been driving ahead with a boxer's toughness and will...
...airy nothings a local habitation and a name is untouched by the delusory subject matter. There is reality amid the hallucinations. Many standard Waugh phobias, e.g., journalists, book reviewers, evangelical clergymen, may be identified. In a prefatory note, the publishers state: "Three years ago Mr. Waugh suffered a brief bout of hallucination closely resembling what is here described . . . Mr. Waugh does not deny that 'Mr. Pinfold' is largely based on himself . . . Since his disconcerting voyage he has learned that a great number of people suffer in this way from time to time. He believes this record may amuse...