Word: bouting
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...Germany's Onetime Heavyweight Champion Max Schmeling can testify, the man on the floor when the bell rings is not necessarily the long-run loser. Joe Louis, 56, who knocked Schmeling out in the first round of their championship bout in 1938, has been living in a Denver veterans mental hospital while his ex-wives and the Government haggle over what money he has left. By contrast, Schmeling-fit, rich and popular-celebrated his 65th birthday last week on his 25-acre estate near Hamburg with his actress-wife Anny Ondra, and was awarded West Germany's Federal...
Hemingway liked Plimpton, however-he even wanted to train him in Wyoming for the bout against Archie Moore-and so does everyone else who knows him. Without exception, his friends testify to his extraordinary, almost ingenuous kindness and his nearly perverse refusal ever to be glum. His whole life, in a very broad and somewhat simplified sense, is an attempt to re-create around himself the intimate, boisterous atmosphere of a boys' tree house or a college-humor magazine, where no one is ever envious and no one is ever mean. He draws his friends into his fancies...
Flight to LA. Her first bout with notoriety occurred last year, when the regents began their long and ultimately successful effort to oust her as an assistant professor of philosophy. Threats and obscene telephone calls made her change her telephone number frequently...
...greatest joy lies in hitting the moving target, preferably cats, chickens or snakes. You ought to see a cat run when you spit in his eye." Today he is semiretired, but his presence at the contest is something akin to Jack Dempsey ringside at a heavyweight title bout...
...snubbed more times than a door-to-door salesman. In 1964, his first season with the Braves, he hit 22 homers, knocked in 88 runs, batted .330 -and lost Rookie of the Year honors to the Phillies' Richie Allen, a .318 hitter. Last season, after a six-month bout with tuberculosis, he suffered through three shoulder separations and still managed a .342 average. The Comeback of the Year award, however, went to the Mets' Tommie Agee...