Word: hook
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wading in, pounding away at the body until, by the eighth round, Ali was noticeably slowed. In the ninth−the round Ali predicted he would knock out Oscar−Muhammad came alive briefly, rocked Bonavena with a stiff right and then was tagged himself by a thunderous left hook. "For a moment," Ali said later, "I thought I was predictin' on myself...
Crunching Hook. Aware that he was way ahead on points, Ali coasted through the late rounds until a few of the fans began booing and filing out of the Garden. They should have stayed. In the final round, Ali caught Oscar with a crunching left hook to the jaw that sent the Argentine to the canvas. Bonavena struggled up at the count of eight, and Ali decked him again. At that point, Bonavena's corner tossed in the towel. No one saw it, and Oscar wobbled to his feet to be dropped again by an Ali flurry. The three...
half out of water, with my hook...
Weary and desperately trying to hold off the bull-like rushes and lunges of the South American heavyweight champion from Argentina, Ali suddenly nailed the strong-jawed Bonavena with a solid left hook to the jaw that dropped Oscar for a count...
Robert Bronson, "the last great New England transcendentalist," is the ghost that got away. The author of Captain Hook's Gang, Sunday Mornings with Zarathustra and other poems, Bronson is something like a son of Ahab in corduroy pants. So long as he was in and out of psychiatric wards, so long as "his true sense of sight was anger," Bronson remained a darling of the Boston literati. But then-in 1953, to be exact -Bronson transcended: He found the One, the Oversoul, the Truth, the Great Zero that Emerson and all the earlier transcendentalists only dreamed of discovering...