Word: bouts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wakeman wanted to repay his fans for their loyalty with a presentation they would never forget. Faithful to his promise, Wakeman will transform the Music Hall stage into a medieval circus for his interpretation of the legend of King Arthur, complete with damsels in distress, magicians, and a jousting bout between knights in armor. When asked bout the financial side of this musical fantasia, Wakeman replied, "It'll probably break me but at least I'll go out in style...
...rain, I mean, I have seen it. I'd like to have my son--he's eight years old--see it." As a counterpoint to this hopelessness a robust Joe Louis is shown lustily chopping wood in his training camp and making sanguine predictions about his upcoming bout with Max Schmelling...
...money will be made elsewhere, and it will be needed. For his 15 rounds-or less-in the ring, Frazier has been guaranteed $2 million. Ali will, of course, do better. His contract with Impresario Don King, the bout's promoter, calls for more than twice that sum. If the fight sells well at closed-circuit television outlets in the States, both fighters could double their take...
...listening to the Red Sox, or at least conscious of the game and what the score is and how many RBI's Jim Rice has today, and when those million people, and certainly another million or two, have conversations a minimum of once a day that begin, "How 'bout those Red Sox, huh?" then it means something. It's pretty hard to find something that so many people can agree on, not to say share as an enormous, and enormously vicarious, emotional experience...
...would be about time. The industry is still feeling the effects of the energy crisis and the nation's bout with recession and double-digit inflation, which cut deeply into Americans' buying power−and Detroit's sales. So far this year, in fact, sales of domestic cars have been even softer than they were in 1974. Last year U.S. automakers sold 7.4 million cars, down 24% from 1973's record 9.7 million; this year the total may well slip under 7 million for the first time since 1962. Yet imports have been able to expand...