Word: counte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the opening whistle till the end of the second overtime period neither team could establish a clear margin of superiority as the play ebbed from one end of the field to the other. The half found the count Knotted at 0 to 0 with both the Crimson and the Orange and Black guilty of missing several shots at point blank range...
...Montreal, Alexander Navarro Fernandez (or was it Carlos Lados?) from Spain (or was it Austria?) was known as "Count Navarro." He was a dapper little man with hollow cheeks, a dab of grey mustache, and a heel-clicking ballroom manner. He lived here & there, but he liked best the expensive elegance of the Mount Royal Hotel...
...title bout in half-filled Yankee Stadium (crowd: 39,827), Tony showed that he was going to slug it out Rocky's way. Midway in the first round he lashed a right uppercut and a left hook to the challenger's jaw. Rocky went down for a count of four. In the next round he gave Zale the pounding of his life. Standing flat-footed at close range, he swung right after right, often starting with his fist at knee level and finishing with it flush against the champion's jaw. Finally...
...Dealers. As a side line, he cultivates politics-and politicos. He probably knows his way around Washington better than any other businessman. In these days when political storms determine so much of the business climate, he feels that the views of businessmen are poorly represented where they count. The National Association of Manufacturers and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, he likes to say, "spend a lot of money saying only what will please their members...
...course, the foregoing wasn't strictly true in the first half. What with errant center passes flying around the gridiron, and fumbles and penalties tying up the Crimson every time they neared paydirt, it looked as though a count of 7-0 or 14-0 might be on the board when it was all over . . . The scoreboard, incidentally, still isn't functioning fully and a new, automatic, electric job is expected momentarily...