Word: bout
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Miami's Willie Pastrano, 29: an 11th-round TKO victory over Britain's surprisingly tough Terry Downes, in a light-heavyweight championship bout at Manchester, England. Bewildered by the determined, bull-like charges of the challenger (who works as a bookmaker when he is not fighting), outfought for ten rounds, Champion Pastrano came out swinging in the 11th, decked Downes twice before Referee Andy Smyth stopped the bout...
...middle of the banquet, Jove leaned over to Mars and whispered, "Did I tell you bout that swinging mortal I met last weekend...
...sore throat, a high fever, and a rash that spread over most of his body and gave the illness its name. But physicians and bacteriologists found that though they could suppress the rash, they could do little else for their patients. Researchers also found that patients who had one bout of scarlet fever might never have another, but if they got the same kind of sore throat again, they might develop heart or kidney disease...
...girl-keep their eyes on the oddball, they also have a wayward way with words. Sounding like the BBC, B.C., a newscaster announces unctuously, "Here beginneth the first verse of the news," goeth on to report the latest Old Testament news flashes. Sports items include a heavyweight bout: "At the weigh-in for the big fight tomorrow, Goliath tipped the scales this evening at 15 stone 3 lbs. and David at 14 stone 3 lbs. David's manager said this evening, 'the odd stone could make all the difference.' " The biblical newscast concludes with a brief theater...
...those pieces of 3,000-year-old bread that they sometimes find in Egyptian tombs. Then last spring I made an extremely taxing round-the-world reporting trip. After getting back from Saigon in mid-May, I was never really well, and this general misery crystallized into an interminable bout of summer flu and bronchitis that made this year's holiday from the column the opposite of restorative...