Word: bout
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bout in question was this week's referendum to decide whether future French Presidents are to be elected by direct vote. De Gaulle's opponents were operating under handicaps. The crisis in Cuba has reinforced the French tendency to rally behind a strong leader. Said De Gaulle pointedly: "In our world, which is so dangerous-one sees it now at this very moment-France cannot survive if she falls back into the impotence of yesterday." Many voters are likely to agree. Further, the government-controlled radio-TV network, which plugged the Gaullist line even in news broadcasts, limited...
Somehow it doesn't seem right that the Little Three should be better at soccer than the Ivy Leaguers. But on Saturday the Crimson--last year's Ivy champ--dropped its second bout with a Little Three member, a humiliating 3-0 loss to Amherst...
...were aloft for three and four days respectively and ate solid food also suggested that the Russians may have found a better way to dispose of or to store body wastes.- Equally important was the indication that Russia had licked the problem of space sickness. Gherman Titov's bout of nausea during his ly-orbit flight had raised serious doubts about man's physical ability to withstand the effects of prolonged weightlessness. But last year Soviet scientists toughened the cosmonauts' training program to help them combat space sickness. New whirling and loop-the-loop exercises were prescribed...
...Tell Me."" One after another last week, they climbed bravely into the outdoor ring at The Pines, the swank borscht-and-bagels resort where Liston was training for his Sept. 25 bout with World Champion Floyd Patterson. One after another, they were helped out. "In the morning, Willie Reddish asks who's got The Bear today," sighed "Slim" Jim Robinson, who has had difficulty lasting one round, "and I say, 'Don't tell me until after I've eaten. I want to enjoy my breakfast.' " Onetime Welterweight Champion Barney Ross watched Liston deck another sparring...
...witch doctor in an isolated jungle outpost, and his once-scoffing lips utter a prayer. At this point, Rock Hudson abruptly begins to look less like Gary Grant and more like Dostoevsky. Neither disguise helps him to make any acting distinction between an encounter with God and a bout with the malarial mosquito...