Word: bout
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...love flares up; the father meets the woman again, and love has its past-tense ardors; and at length the woman meets the bride's snobbish, small-minded mother and the groom's sophisticated one, in what is meant to be the last round in a bout between the free spirit and conformity...
...Human Season, by Edward Lewis Wallant. The author has chosen a dark theme for his uncommonly well-written first novel-an aging plumber's bout with melancholy after the death of his wife...
Bach, Mozart, Ravel and Chopin, and to absorbing Italian verse during hours of relaxation. During his teens, Michelangeli lived in a monastery for one year during a bout with tuberculosis, still withdraws there when the world presses too close...
...deeply confused little town in Russia during the confusing early years of the Revolution. His only asset is an epic garrulity and a wild Talmudic talent for splitting the wrong hair. His only crime is. he confesses, "the fact that I am alive"-although he explains in a frenzied bout of surrealist logic that he is not exactly responsible for that. Reading his fabulous and farcical misadventures is an experience like being cornered by a compulsive talker whose merciless spate of words first glazes the eye until a thread of rewarding sense emerges from the gabble. In this respect...
...settled: Heavyweight Boxing Champion Floyd Patterson would fight Swedish Challenger Ingemar Johansson in a third bout for the title. Date: Nov. 1. Place: Los Angeles. But last week, the man who counts most threw a haymaker at the plan. Said Champion Patterson: "I might fight Johansson before Nov. 1 or after Nov. 1, but I'll not fight him on Nov. 1." Why was he so sore? Well, for one thing, Patterson first heard the news from a gas station attendant, who heard it on the radio. Then there were the promoters, Feature Sports, Inc. and their counsel. Lawyer...