Word: brawler
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...guard, Wilson has more men than he can use. It seems that captain Bobby Beller, the Brooklyn brawler, will start alongside of springy-legged junior Bob Johnson with Eric Gustafson and Jeff Grate in close reserve. Grate, a two year star, has been sidelined by illness in early practice sessions and doesn't seem to be at the peak of his jump-shooting game...
...appearance is true to his reputation as a brawler. Short, thick-chested, with a graying mass of Brillo for hair, he looks like an aging welter-weight. He throws sentences like punches, clipped, hard, sometimes below the belt--not surprising for a writer who churned out 20,000 words about a one-round Liston-Patterson fight and who has himself gone ten rounds with Jose Torres. Yet when others use boxing metaphors, he winces, demanding a better performance; the image, he implies, is his own thing, and indeed, when he cups his hands, leans forward, and drops one like "Maybe...
...from Japan by an arm of the multimillion-dollar Samsung business combine. Charges of government involvement flew from the backbenches; indignant silence wreathed the Cabinet ministers of Premier II Kwon Chung. Then tall, tough Kim Do Han, 49, an independent Assemblyman from Seoul with a reputation as a street brawler, took the rostrum to question the Cabinet. With him he carried a three-gallon can marked "saccharin...
Despite his brawler's background and pugnacious mien, Hoffa possesses Stalinesque talents for political maneuvering, deftly dividing adversaries and concentrating authority in his own hands. Fitzsimmons' election is symbolic of how Hoffa has retained power; it gives him a fighting chance to continue his rule, from behind bars if necessary...
...played by Rod Taylor, John Cassidy is a fountainhead of wild Irish charm, a two-fisted brawler whose pursuit of the arts looks rather like typing practice. Now and then, between barroom fights and bedroom bouts, he taps out a masterpiece or two for the Abbey Theatre. But if his escapades are superficial biography, they often come across as stirring, hearty drama...