Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...claims of Tammany officials that they afforded various luxuries on their comparatively modest salaries by saving the pennies earned by, for example, returning empty milk bottles could have been voiced by plenty of more familiar characters. And the cozying up of chorus girls to Tammany officials in the "Gentleman Jimmy" number is all the more amusing for the recent misfortunes of Representative Mills...
...experienced," he said. "I can handle that." For his part, a shell-shocked Foreman said quietly, "I felt truly I was in control of the fight. I honestly felt sure I'd win until the people jumped into the ring." Foreman gracefully added that Ali is "a great gentleman...
Fight promoters would undoubtedly agree. Despite the five-week postponement of the fight, Gentleman Ali's charisma attracted enough closed-circuit TV viewers to recoup the $12 million invested in the bout-good news for Zaire's President Mobutu Sese Seko. who personally plowed $11.4 million into the match. Attendance at U.S. theaters, however, was far lower than hoped for, and the gross take will fall far short of the $40 million goal. The fighters' purses-$5 million each-were guaranteed in advance...
...always a gentleman," Dukakis said of Francis W. Sargent...
...Nixon decision last summer in the case of the White House tapes. This week the Law Review will publish the responses as a legal symposium, and despite the popular admiration that greeted the court's ruling, the academics for the most part rated the opinion at barely a gentleman...