Word: hooke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Arcy, anxious to throw his strong right hook, consistently held it too low to provide adequate defense against Hanley's jabs which bloodied D'Arcy's face by the second round. Hanley's face-high fists served to block most of D'Arcy's blows, while the champ failed to punch to Hanley's vulnerable body...
Surely, also, Audrey is provided with ample opportunities for her patented doe-eyed scream. Four graphic corpses, I am told, put in an appearance. The first (Audrey's hubby) is tossed battered from a speeding train. The second (a mountainous lummox with a hook where his right hand oughta be) we discover face up and fish lipped in an overflowing bathtub. Number three (a balding dry-goodsman from the Bronx or someplace) gets his throat most ostentatiously slashed in an early-morning elevator. The last is an evil-tempered Texan named, curiously enough, "Tex." Audrey finds him bound head...
...grand juries customarily indict everyone," Weaver said, "and those who get off the hook do so at arraignment." Weaver said that they were hoping to get the arraignment delayed, "so our lawyers can investigate some more--so he can look into things I can't mention over the phone...
Close to the canvas himself in the third and seemingly helpless in the fifth, Clay entered the sixth round obviously stronger than the 31 (sic)-year-old Liston. Clay was never hit with the full impact of Liston's awesome left hook, but he withstood considerable punishment and retained the speed and deceptivenss which rendered Liston sluggish and frustrated by the sixth...
...short, Cassius will be hit and every time he is hit, whether by Sonny's battering left jabs, by a pounding free fist in a clinch, or by the hook, Cassius will get a little slower and a little weaker. If Sonny does not KO Cassius in the third or fourth according to schedule, Sonny will win the war by attrition...