Word: bouting
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...just like leaving on a gas stove without lighting it." Lon Whaley, who has two of the natural gas burn-offs lighting up his front yard like the county fairgrounds, has difficulty getting to sleep at night. And Noah Blevins worries about the landscape: "It 'bout made me sick to see them drillin' and tearin' up what I spent all my life buildin...
...year: "I'll believe I have a fight when I'm in the ring and I hear the bell." The bell finally sounded in Atlanta, a city that one member of the black-and-white group of promoters described as "too busy to hate." In sanctioning the bout, Mayor Sam Massell termed it a "demonstration of democracy." Georgia Governor Lester Maddox called it a travesty. Said he: "I hope he gets beat in the first round by the count of 30." Unable to block the bout legally, Maddox proclaimed a day of mourning...
Sylvia did not relent. "I want you to pick someone here and do something with them," she suggested. Bob looked around, chose the other big man in the group-Bernie -and suggested that they wrestle. At first the bout was only mildly competitive. But suddenly the two big men were ricocheting angrily from wall to wall while the rest of us scrambled for cover. It was obvious that Bob was a stronger and more experienced wrestler. But suddenly, as Bernie was squeezing him in a scissors grip, Bob went limp and gave up. "What's the matter, strong...
...trip to the islands off British Columbia. These became a short story. Then the story grew first into a novella and finally into an amorphous novel full of Lowry's preoccupations with alcohol, mythologems, cabalistic gewgaws and theosophist arcana. In 1957, two months before he died after a bout of heavy drinking, Lowry was still struggling to tame the surge of words and images...
...real excitement in the Boston Garden came at 8:30 in a live fight, the first preliminary bout. There was a lot of screaming and yelling especially from those people who were more than fifteen seconds late. The fight was scheduled for four rounds but only lasted the two black physicians assigned...