Word: flushes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rounds, the fast-stepping Texan fought rings around his opponent, swarthy George Small of Brooklyn. Roach was so far ahead on points that he could not help winning-if he just stayed out of trouble. But in the eighth round Small let go a desperation right and it crashed flush on Roach's jaw. It ripped the flesh inside his mouth and blood gushed from his lips. Roach's legs buckled; staggering, slack-jawed and glassy-eyed, he hung...
Woman's lot these days is not a happy one, White says, and her education is to blame. Her colleges, founded during the first flush of feminism, were modeled after men's, and the belief persisted that "higher education is something like spinach which can profitably be absorbed without reference to the gender of the absorbent...