Word: hook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that caught Louis-opened a gash in Charles's lip. A left cut Charles under his right eye. Another right to the jaw staggered Charles just as the bell rang. Not until the sixth round did Walcott effectively use his new trick: a head-snapping left hook. Four of them, rapid-fire, stung Charles into the bout's first real excitement, an explosive, counterpunching flurry which had Challenger Walcott backing away...
...Round Seven, with both fighters sparring cautiously in mid-ring, Walcott suddenly shot his left hook again. Neither Charles, nor 25 million televiewers, saw the blow coming. The punch caught the champion flush on the jaw, felled him like a poled ox. As the referee tolled "seven," Charles tried to get up, sank back, and at "ten" was out cold...
Summer session director William Y. Elliott and Professor Sidney Hook of New York University provided the most active discussion of the evening. "The West should understand its faith is based on an idea of human personality which is indemonstrable by scientific means and towards which science is neutral," Elliott maintained...
Professor Hook found no logical connection between metaphysical beliefs and conduct. He defended "empiricism and science" against "dogma and superstition...
...ruggedest fighters of the day. Most fighters are "one-handed." They have a good right cross or a good left jab, but rarely combine the two. Robinson's repertoire, thrown with equal speed and power by either hand, includes every standard punch from a bolo to a hook-and a few he makes up on the spur of the moment...