Word: bouting
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Almost fully recovered from his long bout of winter illness, Pope Pius XII was back last week at his hard-working routine. He was up in the morning at 6:30, and often the light in his study above St. Peter's Square was burning at midnight. Yet Eugenio Pacelli, still as slim and erect as a brigadier in the 15th year of his reign, is also in the 78th year of his life, and so, among Rome's churchmen, the talk is of his successor...
King Frederik of Denmark held a small royal traffic court of his own. His uncle, Prince Rene de Bourbon-Parma, 59, a Copenhagen meat exporter, recently rammed two cars in a hit & run accident after a drinking bout. Since the Prince is a member of the royal family and immune to prosecution in the courts, the King himself pronounced sentence: no driving for a year...
...scalp," he said after the preliminary question bout was over. He motioned me over to another chair under an enlarged version of a stamp magnifier with a built in light. He flipped a switch and began rummaging with the lens and a sharp wooden stick. Thirty seconds sufficed for a complete diagnosis...
...left her dressing room, a wrestling representative of the opposite sex confronted me. I recognized him as Buz Orio, a large, squat gentleman who had previously concluded a bout with another large, squat gentleman known professionally as the Demon...
...defeated his first three opponents in the 123 pound division and was leading Alex McCurd of Lehigh in the finals, when McCurd suddenly pinned him with 41 seconds remaining in the nine minute bout...