Word: flushing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...author of Team and Sympathy decried American "hit" phobis but agreed that the audience's verdict about a play should be accepted. His position might be explained from his first flush of success, but Anderson has also seen the face of adversity, if dimly...
...second round Bobo crowded in and Sugar shoved him off. Carelessly, Bobo tapped his gloves together in a meaningless gesture. In that instant the challenger became Sugar Ray Robinson, the champion. His right whipped out and clouted Bobo on the head, bouncing him off balance. His left followed, flush on the face. Bobo went down for good...
...week's end the President was out in the open again, carrying a .410 gauge shotgun along a hedgerow, on the hunt for whatever legal game he might flush. Safely behind rode Grandson David Eisenhower in the pony cart...
...challenger had punched himself arm-weary; he had no more to give. Now Basilio's strength was back, and his hooks were finding the range. In the twelfth, he landed a looping left flush on DeMarco's jaw. The challenger was out on his feet. A merciful shove would have sent him down, but Basilio lowered his sights and fired away at Tony's body. Slowly and gracelessly, Tony slid to the canvas. He was up at the count of eight. Basilio moved in to finish him, but Referee Mel Manning was faster. He brushed Basilio aside...
Armstrong's car. Armstrong went out to explore. Sure enough, the check was there. Other members of the syndicate asked to see it, promptly recognized something that Armstrong, a former vice president of Bankers Trust Co., had failed to notice: the check was unsigned. Still, they felt so flush that they agreed to give Roberts 25% of their winnings ($4,026.73)-minus, of course, some $300 that Armstrong had already lent to the visitors...