Word: bouting
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...addition to the Holy Cross game films, Valpey also revived certain pertinent portions of the 1948 Princeton bout. The picture show lasted for an hour and a quarter...
...continental transportation, however, is hitch-hiking. It apparently came in with the G.I's. Its local name is "auto-stop," and differs from the U. S. variety in that it is considered impolite to stick out one's thumb. The proper method is to hold out the whole arm, bout at the elbow. Even girls can hitch-hike without eyebrows being raised...
Even by overworking Grant's predicament to the last adolescent titter, Male War Bride's three scripters have been unable to stretch it to the picture's length. By evident default, fully half the film must first detail the couple's courtship, a fixed bout in the battle of the sexes...
Britain's King George, footloose once more after his long bout with a form of Buerger's disease (TIME, Dec. 6 et seq.), felt fit enough to take to the dance floor at a party at Londonderry House, and play host to 7,000 guests at a garden party at Buckingham Palace. In a busy week, he also found time to lend his approval to the engagement of his nephew, 26-year-old George Henry Hubert Lascelles, seventh Earl of Harewood, to dark-haired, Austrian-born Pianist Marion Stein, 22. Young Harewood, opera critic for the New Statesman...
...office last week, the Administration's congressional leaders stood in a little cluster, wearing the aggressively confident expressions that politicians put on when they face a pack of reporters. They let Senate Majority Leader Scott Lucas do most of the talking. Recently returned to duty after a long bout with his stomach ulcers, he was a tailor's symphony in brown, and eager to make news. Congress, he said, could adjourn by July 31 or early August at the latest. The implication was clear: Harry Truman had decided not to press for a lot of his legislation this...