Word: bout
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Fronhofer went on to win in the afternoon round, only to fall, 5-3, to Rutgers' Jason Hawk in the bout for third...
...others who have been successfully treated for cancer are in the spotlight now as never before. For that they can thank Paul Tsongas, the first presidential candidate to run openly as a cancer survivor. Although Tsongas has been cancer-free for more than five years, the specter of his bout with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in the mid-1980s has continued to shadow his campaign, even more so since his candidacy has begun to enjoy some success. No sooner had he won the New Hampshire primary than a lead editorial in the New York Times said voters needed a "firmer...
...could end his career and shred their meal ticket, Tyson's advisers made the fatal mistake of underestimating the opposition. In the mid-'80s, when the young fighter got into trouble, his people would speak to the local police commissioner, give him a few ringside seats for the next bout . . . no more trouble. The Tyson camp may have tried that tactic again, offering Washington $750,000 to withdraw her complaint. That wouldn't happen here -- not in Indianapolis, not with this accuser and not with Gregory Garrison, a smart barrister with a homespun air, whom the local D.A. had hired...
Tsongas even jokes about his bout with cancer in the 1970s, when he retired from the U.S. Senate to undergo treatment...
Robertson--most noted for her Pulitzer Prizewinning New York Times Magazine article on her ordeal with Toxic Shock Syndrome, and her book, Getting Better, which chronicles her bout with alcoholism--is back, with yet another personal-account book, this one on sex discrimination at Robertson's former place of employment: The New York Times...