Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Admitting that "I wasn't really qualified anyway," New York Senator Allophones D'Amato resigns his seat. In a special election for the vacant spot, former heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali defeats Republican drugstore heir Lewis Lehrman handily. Ali runs on the slogan: "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee/ Lehrman got whapped once before, now I'll put him down in three...
Michael Dokes knocked down Mike Weaver and then stopped him with a barrage of head punches in the first round last night to win the World Boxing Association heavyweight Championship...
...common majesty, a simple valor-so basic, so appealing, so appalling. Probably every game or type of conflict has it, but the others are not stripped to the waist or the bone. "Kill the quarterback" is mostly a figure of speech. Randall ("Tex") Cobb, a plain-speaking heavyweight, says, "If you screw up in tennis, it's 15-love. If you screw up in boxing, it's your ass, darling...
...maiming and killing a multitude of people in a multitude of imaginative ways. That they manage this without causing any loss of sympathy for him shows a close analysis of the problem of selling the star when he is not defending Rocky's title as the heavyweight champion of the heartwarming clich...
...problems are now merely hinted at, and obviously much more information is needed. While it is fairly well known that there are only two Blacks on the entire 100-man varsity football team, there is no reason to believe that minorities are much better represented on other teams. Heavyweight Varsity Crew's 31-man contingent last year, for example, had no Blacks at all. Nor is the difficulty only Harvard's; it affects the entire Ivy League...