Word: dock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hoped Braddock would win, that knockdown was a happy surprise. It was the last surprise of the fight. Braddock thereafter fought aggressively as he had promised to do. Louis, his confidence restored since his Schmeling defeat, fought as he always does, with a cool, poised cruelty that turned Brad-dock's aggressiveness into a painful demonstration of his ability to absorb a beating. By the end of the sixth round Braddock's eyes were nearly closed, his nose was smeared off line, blood dripped from a long gash on his upper lip and he knew, as he said...
...Sandwich- To get to Royal St. George's Club in time for his first-round match, Brigadier General Alfred Cecil Critchley, London sports promoter, sailed from New York on the Normandie, took a speedboat to the dock at Southampton, chartered a plane, flew to the course, waved at the starter to identify himself, landed at a nearby airport, rushed up to the first tee. He arrived three minutes after the match had been awarded to his opponent by default...
...Anchors Aweigh party, the President motored down to Quantico, Va. to throw out the first ball in the game between Congressmen and Newshawks. Having waited at the Marines' ball park for 15 minutes in a downpour without seeing any signs of his hosts, he drove down to the dock where the party had remained weatherbound on the steamer which had brought it from Washington. On the gangplank he witnessed the presentation by Senator Tom Connally of a new Texas sombrero to Vice President Garner in restitution for one Mr. Garner lost umpiring the game two years ago. The Vice...
...Coronation season, the fireworks and illumination of the greatest naval review since the World War. For the scene of the broadcast, British Broadcasting Corp. had chosen the most hallowed deck in the Royal Navy, Nelson's flagship the Victory in whose cockpit he died, lying in dry-dock at Portsmouth, two miles from the five-mile quadruple row of 160 of the world's fighting ships (see map). For announcer the B.B.C. chose Lieut. Commander Tom Woodrooffe, because he had spent the three years of his active service doing staff work on the Victory and because such...
Give a dog an ill name, says the proverb, and he'll soon be hanged. Hang a man for piracy and he'll be known as a bloody pirate to all posterity. Captain Kidd, who ended his career in a gibbet on Execution Dock, has become the legendary archetype of brutal buccaneer. Says Biographer Wilkins: poor Captain Kidd was a much-maligned man. In a 411-page examination of the contemporary documents in Kidd's case, Sleuth Wilkins sniffs the cold, obscured trail like an eager beagle. His beaglish enthusiasm, indeed, takes Author Wilkins in a wide...