Word: bout
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Here is a conservative's reply to the song PT 109 [April 6]: He came into office 'bout a year ago, And started spend'n money just as fast as it would go He printed lots of dollars to up the nation's debt, And while the bills were dry'n, said, "I ain't through yet." Big John...
...hard blow can also bruise the brain, breaking some of its blood vessels and destroying nerve cells. This kind of damage can kill. The death in Manhattan last week of Benny ("Kid") Paret, 25, after nine days in a coma, from brain injuries suffered in his world championship bout with Emile Griffith, underscored the charge that "in boxing, the aim is to maim...
...Back. New York's Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller ordered an immediate investigation of the bout. Questions were asked in the British Parliament, the U.S. Congress got stirred up, and a bill to ban boxing was introduced in the state legislature of New York. The press, in the U.S. and Europe, sounded off with extravagant anger. "The most murderous world title fight in history," said the London Daily Sketch. "Is this the Saturday night pastime of a civilized people?" asked the New York Times in an editorial. "An unprecedented boxing scandal," agreed the Vienna Kurier. The New York Post called...
Paret's manager, Manuel Alfaro, assailed Referee Goldstein for failing to stop the bout sooner. "I was screaming 'Stop it! Stop it!'" said Alfaro. -"But he let the fight go on." Ringsiders, positioned near Paret's corner, could recall no such shouts...
...quite trust his aging body after it's bout with the pneumonia that had nearly killed him the month before...