Word: footedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hearns, meanwhile, was also beating slow-footed club fighters, but he got paid accordingly.
Sugar Ray Leonard has avoided Thomas Hearns since 1978. After winning the Olympic gold--and America's bicentennial-crazed hearts--Leonard became the television champ. He beat a series of slow-footed club fighters in his first two years as a pro and got paid $50,000 for each encounter...
Franco-U.S. Relations. The Reagan Administration, which had been building a closer relationship with Giscard over the past few months, was caught flat-footed by Mitterrand's election. Indeed, the Paris embassy had confidently predicted a Giscard victory (but not the CIA, whose analysts correctly picked Mitterrand). Briefing...
Then, if Harvard won a scrum, half Tim Endicott would dummy a pass to his backs, hoping to draw an opposing player offside and setting the sure-footed Bott up for an easy penalty kick to win the match.
Joe Louis, World Heavyweight champion from 1937 to 1949, was perhaps the greatest boxer in history. He defended his title a record 25 times. Of 71 professional fights he lost only three, recording 54 knockouts. Yet he once observed: "If you dance, you gotta pay the piper. Believe me, I...