Word: bouting
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...really. The latest bout of congressional querulousness was partly inspired by disappointing news from the Salvadoran battlefront. In the town of Suchitoto (pop. about 11,000), 27 miles from the capital of San Salvador, hundreds of guerrilla members of the Faribundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.) last week were continuing a prolonged attack against a garrison of 150 to 200 national guardsmen and police. All access roads to the town were cut off. Within the besieged area, food, medicines and potable water were growing scarce, and civilian refugees could escape from the fighting only by rowboat across a nearby reservoir...
DIED. James Hubert ("Eubie") Blake, 100, durable ragtime composer and lyricist (Charleston Rag and I'm Just Wild About Harry); just five days after his centennial, following a bout of pneumonia; in Brooklyn. A onetime bordello pianist and a contemporary of Scott Joplin, Blake electrified Broadway in 1921 with his music for Shuffle Along. For the next 25 years the modest, unassuming composer enjoyed steady success before sliding into semiobscurity. His music was rediscovered in the '60s and eventually celebrated in such Broadway shows as 1979's Eubie...
...second round was all Casey, as he jabbed and moved effectively before the sudden knockdown. It was the first time the 147-lb. Casey had knocked an opponent down in his five-bout amateur career...
...between the second and third rounds my manager told me I was winning the fight--to stay cool, move, jab and throw the right," Casey explained. He did much more, landing solid combinations throughout the round and winning the bout going away...
Whether Ford, whom Bernal describes as "a flexible, coachable guy," will be ready to compete by Sunday is still undetermined. The yarding is recovering from a bout with mononucleosis this fall and is still getting accustomed to the American way of life. Harvard style...