Word: bouting
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...exhibit much more vigor than most observers had thought possible. This year, after all, was once widely expected to produce another recession. To be sure, some Cassandras, including several top officials in the Reagan Administration, warned that the economy's improvement was largely illusory and that a renewed bout of business stagnation might hit by this summer...
...widen to include not only athletes who have played in South Africa and those who have visited there for sporting events, but also athletes who play against South African teams on their own soil. Former World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Floyd Patterson was named simply because he attended a boxing bout held in South Africa as a spectator. The British cricketer expelled from Guyana, Robin Jackman, was so treated because he is married to a South African and spends the whiter in that country. Fearing boycotts, Australia has even refused the South African Springbok rugby team permission to land there...
...always considered one another to be like brothers." Santee has been the prodigy, a flash who entered senior competitions at 14, only to have his spirit broken by repeated defeats by older skaters. Santee helped revive his confidence by imagining himself as Sylvester Stallone preparing for the big bout in Rocky. He even made the film's sound track his skating music. Now he prepared for one last fight. "I'm going to go out and at least show them that if [Hamilton's] going to beat me, he's going to feel...
...entire meet, the swordswomen lost only 11 of 44 bouts. Although none of the swordswomen made the individual finals, both Schwinn and freshman Vivi Fuchs came within one bout of qualifying...
...swordswomen did not even know they had won the meet until it was over. Although the team knew it was in the top ranks by the final bout, it was not until the judges checked the team totals and found errors in the Brandeis calculations that the swordswomen knew they had won the meet...