Word: bouting
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Bruce Parker, Tony Enders, and Dave Schwartz each lost a single bout to a strong M.I.T. epee squad...
...reported to have broken completely with Guy Burgess ever since Burgess gave an extended interview in Moscow last October to Tom Driberg, the British newsman and ex-Labor M.P. Both Burgess and Maclean share a continuing problem: alcoholism. Last summer, when Maclean went on an extended drinking bout that ended in delirium tremens, his wife nursed him back to health, but told friends she was fed up and was considering leaving him. Since then, Maclean has been on the wagon, and both he and his wife deny any rumors of separation...
Akins, the church deacon from St. Louis who waited for the Boston battler to punch himself out, finished the bout with a jarring right uppercut and Referee Eddie Bradley stepped in to call a halt at 1:53 of the round...
...drawing power-just before they began to wane. Buick's big-league TV advertising suffered from the failures of Milton Berle, Joe E. Brown, Jackie Gleason. Kudner topped off its poor TV performance last August, when a closing Buick commercial was injected into the Floyd Patterson-Hurricane Jackson bout just as the referee stopped the fight and before Patterson could be declared winner. After complaints from hundreds of watchers, Ragsdale, himself a boxing fan, apologized for "the inept handling and bad timing of the commercial...
...more serious than Kudner's bout with TV were declining Buick sales, which dropped from 737,879 in 1955, the division's biggest year, to 332,102 for the first ten months of 1957, well behind Plymouth. While Buick dealers complained about Kudner's "unchanging" advertising and its lack of contact with dealers, they also felt that the biggest reason behind Buick's slump was its lackluster styling...