Word: knockdown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hastily, the show's organizers snatched off the drapery; quick as a wink, students from a nearby seminary for student priests rushed out and re-covered the offending desnudos. The organizers went back into action; for several minutes it was a knockdown affair between strippers and drapers. In time's nick, before the Minister of Education showed up, the strippers won, and the dignitaries started off to inspect the sculpture. No sooner had they passed than the students returned, so that on the walk back, all that the visitors could see were ghostly, sheeted shapes...
...Used to be 48 chest, 38 waist,' he said. He bought a pistol: 'Good around camp for small game, friends and intruders.' . . . [Restaurateur] Toots Shor told of Hemingway and Hugh Casey, the late Dodger pitcher, trading blows while standing in an open doorway in Havana. A knockdown every punch. Papa won. He never even lost a tooth. 'Spitting teeth is for suckers,' he said ... He hailed a cab. 'Sutton Place South,' he told the driver, then spoke some words in Italian. 'You an Italian boy?' the driver asked, and he said...
...ribbing American movies.** This Italian production, with English dubbed in, is a satire on the type of superspectacle exemplified by Hollywood's Quo Vadis. If Quo Vadis was one of the costliest ($6,500,000) movies ever made, O.K. Nero is certainly one of the silliest. It has knockdown clowning, pratfalls, songs, dances, and an existentialist ballet. Constantly rowdy, it is only intermittently funny...
...that night, with 6,500 fans rooting for him, Keeny, his nose smashed, his left hand sprained, came off the canvas after a sixth-round, eight-count knockdown and won a unanimous decision over his old tormentor, Tommy Umeda. By week's end Keeny was swamped with offers from Chicago, Honolulu. Mexico and the Philippines. But Keeny, hoping he has the habit licked at last, is setting his sights on the top. Says Keeny: "I'd really like to fight in the Garden. That's it - the big apple...
...Bonn government to appoint a German ambassador to Spain to act as the official representative of these men, as well as some 10,000 other Germans in Spain. For two years, Spain has had a diplomatic representative at Bonn. Postwar Germany has not forgiven Franco for his sale, at knockdown prices, of Germany's prewar assets in Spain (Madrid's German hospital went for I peseta), and the expropriation of German commercial firms (Siemens, Zeiss. Bayer, etc.) that were once the backbone of Spain's electrical, chemical and optical industries. For two years Chancellor Konrad Adenauer...