Word: boxers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...German army with atomic weapons, saw the Russian announcement as another defeat for the U.S.'s "unwieldy foreign policy." Some British editorialists were convinced that Russia had outsmarted the West, and that Dulles' statement that the U.S. had considered renouncing tests itself just made matters worse. "A boxer who has just received a crisp and efficient blow on the jaw recovers no points by claiming that he saw it coming." snapped the London Economist...
...half-million Moslems of Ibadan in Western Nigeria have two heroes: Hogan Bassey, the Nigerian boxer who is featherweight-champion of the world, and Ade-goke Adelabu, 43, a spellbinder whose Ibadan People's Party is their first line of defense against surrounding .tribes. The latest ring victory of their first hero (see SPORT) was not enough to compensate last week for what happened to their second...
...Deputies rose clapping their hands. In his second-row seat on the platform, wearing a frozen smile. Bulganin joined in the applause for his successor. Khrushchev himself stood for seconds with head bowed until, unable to control himself, he clasped his hands over his head and grinned in a boxer's triumphal salute...
...quoting the words of Clement Attlee, uttered when he led the Labor Opposition three years ago: "It is no use telling the Russians that we would not be the first to use a hydrogen bomb in a war . . . It would be as if I and a heavyweight champion boxer faced each other with revolvers, and I told him that I was'not going to be the first to fire. He would just say 'Splendid,' and put down his pistol and knock me for six with his fists." Said Sandys: "I really do not think...
...have not the slightest sympathy with debating contests in which each side is arbitrarily assigned a given proposition and told to maintain it . . . There is no effort to instill sincerity and intensity of conviction." As he moved out of Harvard, graduating Phi Beta Kappa, becoming a college boxer, courting and later marrying a Chestnut Hill belle named Alice Lee, he suffered all the torments of power hunger and high ideals that had no place of power to go. One night at an Alpha Delta Phi committee meeting, T.R. told his fraternity brothers: "I am going to try to help...