Word: headlocks
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...prevent defense, the 6'6" monster walked doggedly at Clay, cornering him against the ropes time and again. Then once he had the champ tied up, he started swinging furiously with his right, showering blows alternately on Ali's kidney and nape. Variations on the attack included a headlock before he started the pounding and a straight-on butt where he would plant his lowered head in Ali's midsection and drive at a turnbuckle. Among the few punches Terrell delivered face on were sneak shots delivered after referee Harry Kessler signalled a break...
Died. Robert H. Friedrich, 76, professional wrestler, known as "Strangler Lewis," a Wisconsin farm boy who started throwing his beef around the ring at the age of 14 when he weighed 200 lbs., grew into a 270-lb. behemoth and, with fearsome mien and paralyzing headlock, crunched foe after foe in the days before the "sport" abandoned all pretense of honesty, losing but 33 of his 6,200 matches in a 44-year career-which made him one of the highest paid athletes, with earnings of more than $4,000,000; of complications following a stroke; in Muskogee, Okla...
With these Soviet and U.S. concessions and the new proposals for "black-box" detection, a test-ban settlement seemed possible. However, the talks soon reached a headlock. The U.S.S.R. refused to allow more than three inspections and the U.S. felt that at least seven were required: therefore, no test...
Keen on the sporting life since his days as an amateur pug in Prague, barrel-chested Metropolitan Tenor Kurt Bourn asked a former neighbor, Wrestler Antonino Rocca, to demonstrate his headlock technique. As any friend would, Rocca grabbed Baum's head and squeezed. Result: one blocked nasal passage, aggravating an old injury, one canceled singing tour, one operation for Tenor Baum. Said he ruefully in the hospital: "One moment I had perfect pitch, the next a nose that felt like a ripe persimmon...
...Gentler Sex. In Oshawa, Ont, 27-year-old Cyril Arsenault was sentenced to three months in jail for assault after Nurse Ella Chalmers testified: "He put a headlock on me, and I forced my fingers between his teeth to twist his jaw around. I punched him on the nose and made it bleed. I let him up twice because I won't hit even a man when he's down...