Word: carneras
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...afraid that the defeat of Primo Carnera last night by Joe Louis will be interpreted as an additional insult to the Italian flag, which will permit Mussolini to assert again the necessity for Italy to annihilate Ethiopia...
...come to see stood up. Joe Louis (pronounced Lewis) of Detroit, whose exploits in the past year have made him the hero of as lively a ballyhoo as U. S. sports-pages have ever seen, was now about to engage the most dangerous adversary of his career, Brobdingnagian Primo Carnera. For a moment the two men stood with their seconds at the centre of the ring. Swarthy Carnera looked darker than khaki-colored Louis. Then the bell rang and the fight began...
...sportswriters who only a fortnight before had erroneously picked Max Baer to beat James J. Braddock, sophisticated spectators were surprised by what happened in the first round. Instead of cautiously sizing up an adversary who outweighed him 260 lb. to 196 lb., Louis immediately smashed a right to Carnera's mouth. Because his careless handlers had neglected to give the hulking Italian the mouthpiece which all fighters wear to protect their gums and lips from their teeth, blood began to trickle down Carnera...
...next round and the next Louis stalked Carnera, waiting his chance, warily aiming punches at his body. By the end of the fourth round, these had served their purpose-to bring Carnera's guard down, make him leave his jaw unprotected. In the fifth round Louis smashed a left to Carnera's face. This time when the blood spurted the crowd knew what to expect...
...came in the sixth. Bland, graceful, incorrigibly calm, Louis stalked Carnera across the ring, drove a right to his jaw. Carnera fell, dragged himself up, crashed down again, with another right to the jaw. Louis, an amazingly motionless figure, outlined against the ring lights, leaned on the ropes for a moment. When Carnera was on his feet again, Louis moved in, landed a crashing left. As Carnera got up for the third time, he had just presence of mind enough left to turn toward the referee before Louis had time to hit him again. Referee Arthur Donovan stepped between...