Word: bout
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...whiplash arm for that game. His chunky muscles were perfect for boxing, though, and what he lacked in finesse he more than made up in battering-ram power. After turning pro in 1947, he piled up 42 straight victories, most of them by knockouts, before earning a title bout with Champion Jersey Joe Walcott in 1952. "This kid can't fight," scoffed Walcott. "If I don't whip him, take my name out of the record books." Thirteen rounds later, Walcott was out, knocked senseless by a classic right. Marciano successfully defended his title six times before retiring...
Famous prima donnas are apt to regard a bout with contemporary opera as roughly equivalent to a gargle with sulphuric acid. Modern composers, singers say, don't know how to write. They ruin voices by demanding odd and un-vocal sounds. Though this attitude is widespread, there is evidence that it is less a matter of fact than fashion. Birgit Nilsson, though she sings no contemporary opera at all, points out that composers are usually ahead of performers. Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, she observes, was abandoned as un-performable, "yet nowadays no dramatic soprano can be considered...
Wild Bill Scholl v. Dr. Sam Sheppard. That surprising billing on the pro wrestling program is expected to pack the high school stands for the exhibition bouts that will be held in Waverly, Ohio, on Aug. 9, to raise money for cancer research. After two murder trials, two malpractice lawsuits arising from patients' deaths and last winter's much publicized divorce petition from his second wife, Dr. Sam ranks as a celebrity of sorts. He also claims to have been a pretty fair grappler as a youth, and he reportedly was something of a champion at Ohio Penitentiary...
Michael Collins, 38, owes his couch on the moonship to a bout of bad health. He was to have been a member of the Apollo 8 crew, which made man's first orbits around the moon last Christmas. A paralyzing bone spur in the neck sent Collins to the hospital in June 1968 for a risky operation, however, and Bill Anders took his place. The surgery was a complete success, and Collins was back on full flight status by last November. It was much too late for him to resume his original place with the Apollo 8 crew?...
Many readers miss the florid circumlocutions of such erotic classics as Fanny Hill or My Secret Life. Today's pornographer handles a love scene as if he were dictating an engine-repair manual for high school dropouts. Not so the oldtimers, whose swooning maidens entered the amatorial bout with timorous displays of budded rotundities, swelling hillocks, portals of ecstasy and other geographical purlieus quite foreign to Gray's Anatomy. When it comes to a seduction scenario, few contemporary eroticists could match the subtlety of an anonymous 17th-century poet in reciting a pastoral love-in between a fair...