Word: headlocked
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...Columbus, Ohio arena, aging (42) Joe Louis, once the best boxer in the world but now paunchy and flabby, won his 15th straight wrestling match in a spiritless grapple ending with two phony uppercuts and a headlock. Waiting for Joe in his dressing room were two feds. They presented papers to take away Joe's $400 purse for deduction from his strangling $1,210,789 income-tax arrears (TIME, May 14). Mumbled Louis: "This kinda thing gonna follow me all around?" Then he stuffed the notice of levy in his suitcase and slowly began to put on his pants...
...lives by her seaborne trade. But for 16 years New Zealand's ports had been in the grip of the Communist-led Wraterside Workers' Union. * When the Cominform signaled a stepped-up cold war against the democracies four years ago, the union's headlock on New Zealand trade quickly slipped into a stranglehold...
...Strangler") Lewis was caught in a metaphysical headlock. The 59-year-old wrestling champ of the '20s and early '30s, down 50 pounds to a lean, keen 275, was roaring simultaneously through his resuscitated mat career (his $10 million earnings had all gone, somehow) and a series of lectures on "the constructive way of living." To the Santa Barbara (Calif.) Lions Club Strangler revealed: "Mental hygiene is the coming thing. . . . We can't reach a peaceful world if we instill the will to fight in our youngsters." But then, "by overcoming one obstacle, one gains strength...
...nelson in 7:33 of the third period. Captain Donald Louria got the second fall for the Crimson in 1:11 of the first period. Taking his man down with a double wing lock in the opening thirty seconds of the bout, Louria switched to a front arm and headlock to pin his opponent...
...ringside. In the Boston Arena, 7,000 wrestling fans (twice the usual number) stood on their chairs as the Angel trod up the aisle. In the ring, Bacigalupi whanged the Angel's cowcatcher jaw with a barrage of forearm wallops. The Angel only growled, waded in, got a headlock, a full nelson, a head scissors, an armlock, and then the hold the fans were waiting for -his touted bear hug. He simply crooked his cordwood arms around Luigi's vast circumference, hooked his stubby broomstick fingers behind, squeezed. Bacigalupi wheezed and bellowed while his breath lasted, then...