Word: bouting
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...Prime Minister last week devised a formula that would grant the lower paid manual workers an increase of about 8.5%, even though the raise exceeded his guideline. But it seemed doubtful that the workers would accept the offer. Unless there was an unexpected cooling of Britain's latest bout of union fever, Callaghan's government could be doomed to the same fate that befell the Conservative government of Edward Heath in 1974. Because Heath was unable to settle a strike by the militant mineworkers' union, his party lost its majority in a general election...
...Roots with Upstairs, Downstairs. It purports to tell the story of eight Administrations (from Taft's through Ike's) from the homely vantage point of Lillian Rogers Parks, a black maid whose bestselling 1961 memoir is the series' source material. Apart from an early and crippling bout with polio, Parks (Leslie Uggams) led a rather stable life. She met many famous people but played no role in great events...
...After they clashed on the ice, two prominent NHL players once declined a $25,000 offer from a boxing promoter for a bout. Name them, and the teams they played for at the time...
Harvard's Jon Franklin (150 1bs.) notched two victories and a draw. The draw came against Coast Guard's Mark Yost when with 6 seconds to go in the bout and Franklin ahead by 2 points, Yost reversed him to tie the score at 8-8. Franklin had mistakenly thought that he was ahead by 3 points at the time...
Freshman Marc Cooley, whom Mulvihill referred to as "the man to watch", came from behind to nip his Lowell counterpart, 10-9. In the other 190-1bs. bout against Coast Guard, John Williams wrestled aggressively...