Word: corners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ricardo ("Pajarito") Moreno, 21, idol of Mexico, flung his 125 lbs. out of his corner and rocked World Featherweight Champion Hogan Bassey with a couple of punches that hung the little Nigerian rubber-legged on the ropes. "Stop zee fight! Stop zee fight before he keels heem!" screamed Pajarito's souped-up fans...
While Robinson was winning back his title with brutal skill for the fourth time in six years (never from the same man), one of his handlers was in Basilio's corner screaming that Carmen's seconds were smearing their boy with doped Vaseline. It took a couple of cops to shut him up. Then an Athletic Commission inspector closed in on Robby and took a suspicious swig from the Thermos bottle that contained the challenger's between-rounds refreshment. (It was only orange juice...
...sails for revenge. But there is a hitch: the command that Gable gets had previously been ticketed to Lieut. Burt Lancaster, who stays aboard as Gable's executive officer and makes no bones about his disappointment. What's more, the crew is in Lancaster's corner. When Gable pours on the drill, they fall to without a grumble, but when he ducks a Japanese submarine, they mutter that he is "running scared." And when Gable, in defiance of orders, heads for Bungo Strait, "the graveyard'' where at least four U.S. subs lie buried, a deputation...
...Then Carpenter put his hand on McDou-gle's shoulder, in what Principal Irving Boroff described later as "a brotherly, positive way." Student McDougle cried, "Nobody touches my clothes!", shoved Carpenter a little, swore a bit, then ran out of the school to stand bewildered on a street corner. Someone called the cops...
...George Hotel, took a long look at the blue Mediterranean and the snow-capped mountains of Lebanon, and began his first sketch for the U.S. New Delhi embassy, a commission he had received from the U.S. State Department three months before. The sketch (see cut), done quickly on the corner of a coffee-stained Manila envelope which Maria snatched from the wastebasket afterward, may well prove to be a historic architectural document, for by almost universal acclaim, Stone's New Delhi embassy is one of the key architectural achievements of the decade. What Stone has managed...