Word: boxers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even before the flag-raising was finished, a U.S. boxer collapsed-starved for oxygen in the high (7,800 ft.), thin air-and had to be carried off. Next day, when some 2,000 competitors from 22 American republics began the more strenuous exertions of the off-year Olympics, athletes and spectators began to drop in droves...
Professor of History and expert on the Far East John K. Fairbank '29 also is averse to dividing Gore. "Spheres of influence can only lead to another Boxer Rebellion," he commented...
Last year's champion in the 125-lb, class, Jim Bresnahan of Dudley lost to Bob Weiler as the Dunster boxer won on a referee's decision. Norm Wyner of Winthrop House, last year's winner in the 145-lb. division, defeated fast-starting Stacy Holmes of the Funsters by a TKO in the third round...
...never plays. Bulldogs sit and brood-when they're not sleeping, that is. Jock spends nine-tenths of his waking hours asleep." With fine disdain Jock stood in the ring while a silver-blonde Afghan, a sealyham terrier, an English springer spaniel, a Yorkshire terrier and a boxer competed with him for best in show. "He just doesn't give a damn until he wants to give a damn," sighed Owner Saylor, "and he doesn't give one very often." But in the view of Judge Albert Van Court, Jock's massive shoulders, his wrinkled face...
...release of its prisoners in Red China. In 1854, a United States ship bombarded a Nicaraguan port after some Nicaraguans had manhandled an American consul. The Supreme Court subsequently asserted it to be the Executive's duty to act at his own discretion to protect American citizens. During the Boxer Rebellion in China in 1900, President McKinley sent 5,000 American soldier's and marines on a triumphal march to Peking, a feat unlikely to be repeated in the near future...