Word: fightin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second big show (Jersey Joe Walcott v. Ezzard Charles). Tongue-in-cheek sport-writers have been touting it as the "slightly" heavyweight championship. Said Boxing Director Louis, squelching a rumor that he might give up promoting and make a ring comeback: "Promoting don't pay as well as fightin', but it lasts longer...
...shellacked stick which was not the old shillelagh that his father brought from Irrreland. At the Stevens, Phil had suddenly to fill in for Dorothy Shay, the "Park Avenue Hillbillie," who was ill with laryngitis. The patrons had come expecting to hear Dorothy's leering Feudin' and Fightin', and got nothing but Phil Regan's clean Irish ballads. But they too kept calling for more...
...Fightin' Thirteenth Sirs...
...interest to know that the Fightin' Thirteenth has been engaged in the softening-up process of Tarakan and other Borneo targets for months preceding the invasion. The success of our bombing and strafing attacks was indicated by the inability of the barbarous Nips to make a stubborn defense. Their light ack-ack and hasty withdrawal to better prepared defense positions testifies to the accuracy and deadly action the Thirteenth Air Force gave the target...
...credit to the Fightin' Thirteenth, which has destroyed more than 1,300 Jap planes, sunk 500,000 tons of Jap shipping in its unbroken tour of duty from the New Hebrides, through Guadalcanal and the central Solomons, New Guinea and the Moluccas, to the Philippines and Borneo...