Word: fours
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dapper, comfort-loving Ray Robinson nas not been a popular champion. He has fought only when he felt like it and has been known to change his mind about a match after the contracts were signed. Moreover, in Harlem, where he owns and operates four businesses (including Sugar Ray's Café), even his friends suspected that the champ had grown soft on easy living. But Sugar Ray, beaten only once in 98 professional fights, proved last week that he still had everything under control...
After 21,500 miles of flying, and four weeks of interviews, the 13 correspondents in the U.S. press party were too tired even to play poker. Homeward-bound on the KLM (Royal Dutch Airlines) Constellation Franeker, they were in no mood for the kind of horseplay that had brightened an earlier leg of their Indonesian tour, when Nat Barrows of the Chicago Daily News whipped out some scissors and trimmed the luxuriant locks of the Houston Post's James Branyan, while two other newsmen held him down...
Imaginative, sensitive, scarecrow-thin Neville had only four years of school, "a place of darkness and inhumanity." The public library was his university: "I discovered Charles Dickens and went crazy. I read at meals. I read under the [street] lamps. I read myself to [acute] myopia...
...spare time, young Cardus imitated the austere wit of the Guardian's reviews of the arts, hoping to write for it himself. In 1917, after four years of batting and bowling as assistant cricket coach at Shrewsbury School, Cardus got his wish. The Guardian's Editor C. P. Scott hired him as a reporter, and Cardus stayed on the paper for 22 years...
...preceding four: Haitian, Palestinian, Sioux and Navajo, and Equatorial African music...