Word: boxer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story." A typical one is Patsy, about a parish priest who suspects that one of his boys is a hold-up man because he suddenly begins to flash a lot of money. The climax and happy ending: the priest learns that the boy earned the money as a professional boxer, fighting under an assumed name...
...Long Count. In Washington, D.C., after taking a count of ten, Boxer James Walker staggered up from the canvas to challenge a jeering ring fan, who floored him again with one haymaker...
...full force of Communist China at the end of the trail" but that restrictions on acrial reconnaisance flights prevented him from getting accurate estimates of Chinese forces until the Eighth Army first met the Chinese on November 24th. So our army was shoved into the ring like a blindfolded boxer. But British and Chinese Nationalist Intelligence had both acquired and passed on information on the Chinese forces by early September, so the implication is that Willoughby's intelligence service was incompetent and that he either ignored or failed to evaluate correctly information given him by more able services...
...Miller. On Monday, he punched the bag, skipped rope and shadowboxed through the day in a Times Square gymnasium. Tuesday, he tried out for parts in two movies. That night he climbed into the ring at Newark's Laurel Gardens for a heavyweight fight with a boxer named Willie Huff. Televiewers saw Miller knocked down twice, were spared seeing him knocked out only because of a transmission failure by station WATV...
While the Red Cross is whipping up its blood donors, the armed forces have started collecting blood from servicemen. Last week Admiral William Fechteler sent a crackling "Well done" to the aircraft carrier Boxer, whose sailors and flyers gave 2,377 pints of blood in the midst of combat operations off Korea. U.S. civilians rated no such "Well done"; it was mainly because of servicemen's donations that the week's total topped 49,000 pints, and this was still far short of the goal: 75,000 pints a week until July...