Word: champ
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sent flowers to the mayor's wife, and comes out through the aisles dressed as George Washington in an extravagant Crossing the Delaware parade, means business in this fight, but he does not know that Rocky means business too. Round after fifteen rounds, Rocky stays up, going for the champ's weakened right side. "He doesn't know it's a show; he thinks it's a goddamn fight," Creed's trainer panics. But it is precisely because the championship has become the symbol of Rocky's struggle to show that he can "go the distance" against all those anti...
...interested in was teaching a nice, small, quiet seminar. I really didn't want it to become a carnival-type situation." So as soon as she got through her first class, she set off for New York City to help another bashful fighter, Heavyweight Champ Muhammad All, promote his new autobiography...
...contestants used beans. "That," sniffed one chili head, "would be like mixing cognac and Dr. Pepper." In fact, the simplest recipe proved best in the view of a panel of judges that included Actors Ernest Borgnine, William Conrad and McCulloch Oil President C.V. Wood, retired, undefeated world chili champ. Joe DeFrates, 67, of Springfield, Ill., winner of the California cookoff, concocted his "horse-and-buggy" chili from lean beef, peppers and his own chili powder. The Texas champion, Susie Watson of Houston, used a similar recipe, plus an arcane spice derived from pine cones. Even in Texas, none...
Halfback rushing champ and co-captain Kevin Slattery, 5'9" and 175 lbs., will be hungry for the remaining 166 yards he needs for an all-time one-season Brown rushing record of 700 yards. That may mean a lot to a Bruin...
...singer. When neither love nor liquor could quench Bessie's misery, her harsh sounds of loneliness could bring an entire audience to tears. Bessie sang from pain, Linda sings from joy. She cannot crush her optimism. Hopkins ain't Bessie, it is true. She is, nonetheless, a champ...