Word: hooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...corner." After dodging and feinting to make Dempsey think he was afraid, Tunney finally found his opening and "with everything I had in my right hand hit Jack on the cheekbone. Shucks, too high for a knockout." In the sixth round Dempsey landed his hardest blow, a left hook to Tunney's Adam's apple. "The cartilage was pushed into my throat and lacerated the mucous membrane on the side. I coughed blood and was hoarse for several days." Tunney won the decision and "after the excitement in the dressing room subsided, I went to a small hotel...
...take the cartilage of the fish's nose in your teeth, squeeze his body to make it smaller, and yank him out of the meshes. All the time the hands must be kept under the water. The Eskimo method is to dangle a small ivory fish with a hook on it. By this means they catch four or five fish a day at the ice hole. We hope to show them that by our methods they can catch 50 in an evening...
...coached his protégé to avoid it and Schaaf pounded Stribling in the body till the fourth round. Then, when Stribling tried to hold him with one of his peculiarly tenacious clinches, Schaaf cracked him on the jaw with four right uppercuts, dropped him with a left hook. Saved from a knockout by the bell, Stribling fought six more losing rounds, with exactly that kind of exciting, reckless courage which critics have accused him of lacking after fights which he has won. At the finish, with both eyes almost closed by bruises, Stribling saw Schaaf get a unanimous...
...whom expected Dempsey to win, as he himself had suggested, "with one punch." Instead, tottering a little on legs that are no longer capable of the delicate shifts of balance necessary to a fighter, Dempsey found himself unable to maneuver Levinsky into an opening for his solid left hook. Levinsky forced the fighting. In the fourth round, confident, unhurt, he made a gesture which Chicago fight spectators last saw after Dempsey knocked down Gene Tunney in 1927, a scornful wave of one glove which meant "Come on and fight." There was no official decision, but of 24 sportswriters 18 agreed...
...thought then all was up. I tried frantically to keep my head above the surface. I thought crazily it was all up. And then I struck some sort of a hook in the stream with my hands. I clung...