Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the new features introduced in the New York Times campaign to attract the affluent young New York suburbanite crown are inherently worthless or revolting--although most of them are only marginally more interesting than John Denver lyrics. What really rankles is the utterly shameless way in which the empress is selling herself...
Although the K.O. was O.K. by DiNicola, his career peaked when he won the All-Marine Corps flyweight crown, outpointing Joe Rodriguez in 1975. The win made him eligible to represent the Marines at the AAU and Olympic boxing trials. He also ended up with a broken nose after getting in front of a Rodriguez haymaker...
After Wednesday's performance, though, the ballplayers have at least the confidence, if not yet the ability, to take the Ivy crown. Said Sanacore, "I'm sure we're going to be in every game. We're going to challenge every team we play...
Tonight Ali needs no introduction. But most fight fans see Shavers, with his shaved head and bearded face, as another nobody with whom Ali toys around to make easy bucks ($3.5 million for Ali, $300,000 for Shavers) and to satisfy demands that the champ defend his crown...
Tonight, after eight years of looking for fights on two continents and being avoided by the "name" fighters, the crown is there for the taking. Lucca said, "Someone was always telling us to beat one more guy but nobody would fight us. Foreman refused us, Norton said he hoped he would never fight Earnie. Earnie was too dangerous...