Word: dempsey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soft, resilient and apparently harmless, rubber balloons seem like ideal toys for toddlers; some kids even like to nibble the knot. But balloons can also be dangerous, report three Honolulu physicians in the journal Pediatrics. Drs. Yi-Chuan Ching, J. Dempsey Huitt and George Nagao say that balloons that burst while being chewed or inflated can explode with such force that fragments of rubber may be propelled back into the mouth and windpipe, causing asphyxiation. The trio base their warning on a review of a score of fatal accidents plus their own observations of two other cases. One two-year...
...town that hews to the traditions of the past by holding a rodeo every year even as its outskirts are being bulldozed for a housing development. Ace (Robert Preston) used to be a champ, a great bull rider who once performed in Madison Square Garden and talked to Jack Dempsey as one champion to another. Now he devotes most of his time to hustling up a stake...
...Skon, Radcliffe's other singles player, was eliminated in the quarter-finals by third seeded Melissa Dempsey of Yale. Malo Paul of Wellesley won the singles title for the second year...
...style, which the system found so outrageous, was appreciated by many blacks who understood its origin and effect. Whites also learned a lesson from Johnson. At least, Tex Rickard did. The promoter of the Johnson-Jeffries contest. Rickard later went on to manage Jack Dempsey, and in that capacity displayed the knowledge he had gotten from Johnson by never allowing his man to face Henry Wills, a black fighter whom some felt was a good as Johnson. Johnson himself never got another shot at Fat City, but he did not need...
...Gene Tunney v. Jack Dempsey...