Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...another room, darkened by afternoon shadows, a teenage boy plays the piano. He forgets a note, and has to fight back tears as he explores the cumbersome Braille sheet music with his fingers...
...this the end of the Diet? No one was prepared to count him out. For one thing, the divided Tories had no one better-including Camp-to thrust onto the hustings if a new election were suddenly called. Aware of this, Diefenbaker was hardly inclined to quit. "Fight on, my men," he urged his supporters, recalling a medieval English ballad. "I am wounded, but I am not slain. I'll lay me down and rest a while, and then I'll rise and fight again...
Winner & Loser. For Clay, the victory marked the end of a year in which he has beaten five opponents and earned $2,000,000. It also left Cassius with only one logical contender: Ernie Terrell, the World Boxing Association's heavyweight champion, whom he will probably fight next February...
...Williams, the fight marked the end of the road; face bruised, one eye puffed nearly shut, five stitches in his cut lip, he announced that he was quitting the ring. He is leaving it the same way he found it-penniless. His share of the purse and ancillary rights may total $160,000, but cuts, taxes, and debts will probably take...
Hard evidence of that fact emerged on two fronts last week. Columbia Pictures, immersed in a taut fight with dissident stockholders, won a pledge from the Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas, which had recently acquired a 20% interest in the company, that it would stand by the present management. That beat off the challenge of the takeover-minded dissidents, at least for the time being. At the same time, small but glowing Seven Arts Production Ltd., headed by ex-Tire Executive Eliot Hyman, announced that it would purchase 1,600,000 shares of Warner Bros., giving...