Word: bouting
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Hearns was leading on all three judges' cards when the referee stopped the bout. If he had survived, he would have won the fight. But even to a Tommy Hearns fan, that wouldn't have been fair. Hearns won ten rounds, yes, but only because Leonard didn't throw any punches. Whenever Leonard wanted, he controlled the fight...
...with casual confidence, as each piece of the band slowly warms to Jagger's vocals and eventually comes crashing in at full force while he switches from singing to verbal self-torture. The women, they tear Mick apart, but he don't have nowhere to turn: "I'm worried 'bout you/I'm worried, and I just can't seem to find...
...Though the Configuide and other sources have labelled him one of Harvard's finest lecturers, his severe stammer makes teaching more frustrating for Kelleher than for most. "I just keep going...but stammering is a terrible exhausting, business. After teaching a class where I've been caught in a bout of stammering, I come out feeling like I've been beaten with a baseball bat...Sometimes I only get to about half of what I want...
...decision. In a television interview from his summer retreat north of Hamburg, he said that West Germany would accept the neutron weapon if other European NATO members would, and if arms negotiations with the Soviet Union failed. In private, he gave vent to what one insider described as a "bout of exasperation" reminiscent of the anger Carter used to trigger. The Chancellor has reason to be worried: he has vowed to resign if, at its congress next spring, his party reneges on an earlier pledge to station medium-range Pershing II and cruise missiles in West Germany beginning...
...tall and 155 lbs.-his bulk is imposingly carried in a wedge from shoulders to waist. Not since Hemingway has a well-known American writer worked as hard on his body as he has on his prose. Rarely a day goes by when a bout at the typewriter is not followed by a roll on the mat with his sons, a three-to six-mile run or a session bench-pressing weights until he tires. "I do not lift for bulk or definition," he notes, "but for stamina...