Word: bout
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...armada of Magellans, Drakes and Joshua Slocums. Fleet Street printed reams on his every tack; BBC cameras traced his tortuous rounding of Cape Horn; the Queen knighted him in midpassage. Sailors and landlubbers alike marveled at the ability of a 65-year-old man, who had won a bout with lung cancer eight years earlier, to survive everything from chronic leaks to a capsizing in the Tasman Sea. But any temptation to romanticize Chichester's feat will be quenched by a reading of this distillation from his 200,000-word...
Heavyweight, Bob Panoff came through with a final-bout 9-5 decision against Brown's Don Curtin on Saturday to pul out a 17-15 victory for Harvard, its firs this season in Ivy League wrestling...
Sophomore John Reitz upset Don Sieja --the Big Red's 1967 All-American in the epee and two-time All-Ivy selection--in a close 4-5 bout...
Quite Mad. By the time Killy was eight, he had won his first competition - a jumping contest. A bout with tuberculosis sent him to a sanatorium for four months, but by 14, he was promising enough to be picked for the French team that competed in a junior meet at Cortina d'Ampezzo in Italy. He fell in the slalom at Cortina and suffered the first of two broken legs. "I was quite mad when I was young," he says. "I took too many chances." But he was also learning - developing the power, control and techniques that would make...
...heavyweight Bob Panoff's 3:09 pin over Rutgers' Maurice Hill could only bring the Crimson close in a losing cause. Panoff's pin was the fourth of four straight victories for the Harvard heavyweights that pulled the team back from a 19-3 deficit after the 160-pound bout...