Word: half-nelson
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Even more decisive than the Varsity win was the Yardling matmen's 35 to 5 swamping of the Tech freshmen. Massive Vern Miller in the unlimited division scored his usual win with a 5:5 half-nelson. Six falls and a decision accounted for the Yearlings' points. Ev Clement's defeat prevented a shutout...
Although beaten at both Yale and Princeton this year, blind Robert G. Allman, shifty 118-pounder, rose to new heights by planing undefeated Harvey Ross with a half-nelson and body hold. Ross, like almost every other Crimson grappler, found it impossible to gain the advantage, once down...
Princeton, N.J., March 18--Captain Howland Stoddard was the solo Harvard wrestler to qualify in the first day of competition in the Eastern Intercollegiates here today, when he throw Barnet of Columbia with a half-nelson and body at 4.01, and then pinned Masher of Cornell in the semi-finals with a hammerlock and half-nelson...
...soldiers no longer controlled San Francisco, nor the police, nor Mayor Rossi, nor the citizens, nor the newspapers. The man who had a half-Nelson on San Francisco was an Australian Communist named Harry Bridges. Chairman of the joint committee of maritime workers and chairman of the strike committee, he had organized the bloody, nine-week-old longshoremen's strike which had finally detonated the general strike. Organizing his own body of strike police, Chairman Bridges declared against violence, prepared to set up a food distribution system from central markets whither householders might go afoot. "If the people...
...bottom with great earnestness, the slow smile of the contented seer disturbing the placid melancholy of his round face. With deliberation he closed his right eye although continuing to hold the telescope in front of him. The eye should be blind, he thought. Never mind. It's a good half-Nelson. "Gentlemen! A half-Nelson...