Word: holmeses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chief among the celebrities were the poets Oliver Wendall Homes and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Holmes addressed the children first, reciting a poem he had written while homesick during a trip to Pisa, Italy. "And still in Memory's holiest shrine, I read with pride and joy," he said in a...
"Know old Cambridge? Hope you do Born There? Don't say so! I was too The nicest place that ever was seen, Colleges red, and common green, Sidewalks brownish with trees between." --Oliver Wendell Holmes
Where was Ali? He was there at points, when he would get up on his toes and circle steadily, smoothly to the left. He was there when he would shoot out the right lead--that awesome right lead--and connect to Holmes's face. But it seemed that Muhammad didm...
Between the ninth and tenth rounds, Ali's eyes became puffy, and the right eye especially appeared to have absorbed many of Holmes' jabs.
In the tenth round Holmes went to work, landing heavy combinations to Ali's body and head. The champion never staggered Ali, but Ali did nothing to discourage the onslaught of blows.