Word: bums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said determined hero-maker Lake: "I still think McGee got a bum rap, and I'd handle the story the same way if I had to do it over again...
...Where do you bums get off calling me a bum ... a cheese champion? ... I know I haven't defended the title. . . . But I couldn't very well do that and ride around the Pacific. I wore a Navy uniform three and a half years. . . . While I was away, you kept referring to Ray Robinson as the 'uncrowned welterweight champion...
Four nights later, at Madison Square Garden, cautious, clever Red Cochrane did nobly for eight rounds against a self-confessed bum. But when Rocky Graziano made good with a ninth-round haymaker...
...Lippy") Durocher, umpire-eating manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, was charged with felonious assault on a fan who gave Lippy a piece of lip from the stands. Fan John Christian charged that Durocher and a ball-park guard gave him a working-over after Christian had shouted "Bum" and "Crook...
...liked to spend weekends drinking and gambling himself, aboard a craft known as the "Bum Boat," an ancient stern-wheeler converted into a houseboat. When the City Council decided one December to clean up the red-light district, he protested vehemently that such an action in the week before Christmas would be unChristian. On such occasions he was a formidable figure-a wry neck kept his head cocked to the right and made him look like an angry rooster. Once he ended a two-hour Council debate by rising and bellowing "Bull!" at the top of his lungs...