Word: boxing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whites. He returned to the Ennis household with two panga knives, slashed Mrs. Ennis and stabbed her sleeping daughter. When the police arrived, the Mau Mau had thrust a knife into his own chest, and was desperately trying to electrocute himself at the household fuse box. ¶In Wakamba territory, southeast of Nairobi, a gang of screaming tribesmen, shooting pistols and poisoned arrows, attacked a veterinary inspector at Machakos. "We want your head!"they screamed, but Dick McCausland, with an arrow in his arm, valiantly fought them off and retained his head. The Wakamba, 600,000 strong, supply one-third...
...banking Jafets. currently headed by Vargas-Backer Ricardo Jafet. But many a Lebanese in Brazil is simply a backhands pots-and-pans trader. Of such, Brazilians are currently singing a popular samba : Hallah, hallah, hallah, Have pity on Abdallah; Up and down the hills he trots, Carrying his sample box...
Lines formed before the Paris Opera box office, and black marketeers sharked tickets at ten times their original prices...
...Cigar Boxes. Elisabeth introduces Ernst not only to the hot quick tempo of love on a furlough but to the moral decomposition of Nazi Germany. Her gentle doctor father, informed on by a tenant in his own house, is carted off to a concentration camp, and his ashes are subsequently returned in a cigar box. Ernst charms away such horrors with a symbol, a linden tree flowering affirmatively amid the ruins of his home-town square. Filled with a deep if obscure faith in the future, he marries Elisabeth and goes back to war, only to be killed by some...
...rally in the sixth. Seven men went to the plate, but only one run scored. Don Butters hit the longest ball of the day, a double to far center, to lead off. Two walks loaded the bases, and Neddy Felton, pinch-hitting for Arnold, sliced a single through the box for the score. With the bases loaded and only one out, Gallagher jerked Priere and sent in Buchanan...