Word: hook
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hook for Hook. The action in the ring was thoroughly in keeping with the action outside. Very little went according to plan-certainly not Ali's plan, which called for a sixth-round knockout of Frazier. At the opening bell, Joe, the most fearsome body puncher around, went immediately-and wildly-for Ali's head. Ali, the celebrated stick-and-run dancer, very often stood flatfooted and, in what proved to be his ultimate undoing, tried trading hook for jolting hook. In the early going, Ali's long, rapid-fire jabs and lightning combinations kept the ever...
...other speakers on the "peacepanel" included Rep. Donald Riegle (R-Mich.), Stanley Karnow, Far Eastern correspondent for the Washington Post, and Daniel Ellsberg, former consultant to Henry Kissinger, now at M. I. T. Sen. Mark Hatfield (R-Ore.) also addressed the group in a pre-recorded telephone hook-up from Washington...
...shot. Now he seems to set himself more. Trading on 10 to 15 more Ibs. of bulk and 1¼ more inches around the biceps, he hits like a true heavyweight. The seemingly indestructible Oscar Bonavena got that information the hard way in December, when Ali exploded a ripping left hook in the 15th round and dropped the blocky Argentine in a heap. Oscar wobbled up only to be decked again and again, giving Ali a T.K.O. victory. It was the first time that Bonavena had been stopped in his 54-bout career...
...such mechanical precision that he consistently throws between 54 and 58 punches each round. He works almost exclusively inside, crouching and always moving in to slam the body. When the pummeling begins to slow his opponent, when the guard drops to protect the stomach, Frazier tosses a murderous left hook to the head. His coup de grâce is lethal. "Getting hit by Joe," says Light Heavyweight Ray Anderson, one of Frazier's sparring partners, "is like getting run over by a bus." Some of his victims, like Light Heavyweight Champion Bob Foster, literally have no recollection of what...
...What we lacked in the Yale game, and it's something we've lacked for most of the season, is a killer instinct," Dover said yesterday. "When we build up a big lead, we shouldn't let them off the hook. And that's what we did against Yale," he explained...